{"id":1898,"date":"2012-01-27T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2012-01-27T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:58:38","slug":"att-says-cell-sites-great-improved-in-my-area-twice-oh-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/att-says-cell-sites-great-improved-in-my-area-twice-oh-really\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T says cell sites greatly improved in my area (twice). Oh, really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/att_120126.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/att_120126.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"att_120126\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/att_120126.png 320w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/att_120126-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>On Nov. 26, 2011, AT&#038;T Wireless sent me a text message stating that over 50 cell sites in my area had been enhanced. Did I see better coverage or data speed? Actually, since then it appears that a section of the city of about 2 miles by 0.5 miles does not have any 3G data capacity (despite phones reporting it has a 3G signal) and often no voice coverage. In other areas, voice coverage has deteriorated to the point where voice conversations are difficult to conduct for more than a few seconds at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Jan. 25, 2012, I received another text message from AT&#038;T Wireless stating that a call site in my &#8220;local area&#8221; (whatever that means) was enhanced specifically for wireless Internet access. Oh really? The Speedtest.net app reported a ping time of 432ms (very slow), 0.16 Mbps download (that&#8217;s 160Kbps) and 0.06 Mbps upload (that 60 Kbps or nearly analog modem speed). This is actually far worse than it was before the enhancement.<\/p>\n<p>To say the least, I am not impressed by AT&#038;T&#8217;s &#8220;enhancements&#8221; to their cell towers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 26, 2011, AT&#038;T Wireless sent me a text message stating that over 50 cell sites in my area had been enhanced. Did I see better coverage or data speed? Actually, since then it appears that a section of the city of about 2 miles by 0.5 miles does not have any 3G data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","tag-att-wireless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-uC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}