en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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Re: "problem on ATT's network"
AT&T 'does' have good voice quality... as long as you have a phone that you can disable the AMR-half rate codec.
Most RAZR phones are capable of this. I was actually flogged on AT&T's wireless forum (have been a member since it was forums.attwireless.com).
I actually had good coverage off of Drummond Island/DeTour village while in Canada (saved on roaming  )
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
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| Drummond is one spot I visit during winter. ATT has ok coverage because Drummond's cell tower is GSM by a 3rd party carrier not ATT. The coverage was edge which is ok but voice quality wasn't like it is when in 3g.
Although a few verizon/alltel folks got a signal then lost it this past winter. The year before they never got anything.
What I have noticed with ATT is it has a hard time handing off from tower to tower in certain areas. Those areas are not rural areas. We are talking about the suburbs of chicago. For instance I refuse to take calls while on the train from the city to my suburb. I will get dropped calls like no tomorrow. The main reason is some towns are 3g and others aren't. It seems those are the troubling spots.
Like I said for what I need ATT works but they could do much better with voice and data IMO. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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| If you're running AMR-Full Rate or Enhanced Full Rate, the call is as clean as 3G, with the exception of handoffs (rare in the boonies).
I had clean calls at Whiskey Bay and Beech Beach (and decent data sessions) while on the south end of St. Joseph's Island for the week.
On my old Motorola V505, there is a way to show handoffs between sites, and it was a few times / minute... even while not moving - garbled calls a lot with AMR-half rate... decent on AMR-full rate and EFR. T-Mobiles calls never had this issue.
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | I don't think this can be done with the smartphones but wouldn't put $$$ on it  . |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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| I think many phones have the ability to lock up the audio codec. The hard part is finding the code.
LG CU series has a nice feature for it, and many Eurospec phones come with AMR-half rate disabled by default (it wasn't well accepted in many European countries).
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minidu
Premium
join:2002-09-28
Mackinac Island, MI
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said by gdm  :Drummond is one spot I visit during winter. ATT has ok coverage because Drummond's cell tower is GSM by a 3rd party carrier not ATT. Not any more, its now all ATT, they bought out all out.
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tad2020
join:2007-07-17
Orange, CA | reply to en102
My boss has the Moto Q and AT&T, when he calls me on it 75% of my side of the conversation consists of "what?". It was like that on his last several phones too. Sounds like talking through a Pringle's can with a sheet of water at the end. |
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