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They can turn almost anything into a cell tower and you'd never know it. Some church steeples are cell towers. No one company is going to have coverage everywhere. It's regulated by the government. It's best to go with a company that's going to let you try the phone for at least a few days so you can get an idea of if it's going to work for you. Lots of things can interfere with service. I have a lot of hills in my neighborhood, Sprint drops calls every time you go into a small valley, my AT&T works. My husband's Nextel works okay but not in certain rooms of the house.
The legal prose here is so flawed it is laughable. The 'necessity' is the fact that AT&T relies on 1900 Mhz propagation, where's other providers (with the exclusion of T-Mobile) has the leverage of 850Mhz signal propagation.
On the health and safety front - don't the consumer know that the less towers are in the area, the harder the phone has to work? Therefore there are *increased* dangers associated with extensive cell phone usage as the phones have to work harder to maintain calls.
On the whole, this entire spectacle is a NIMBY-fest, and maddening!
Agree. ATT is hurt the most here by their non-preferrable spectrum assignment. Why North Carolina is the only place they got saddled with it is a mystery.
As far as NIMBYism goes, I have to say I usually side with putting towers up and for the one proposed for the inudstrial park off Cary Parkway, there is no reason in the world it should not have been approved, but I kind of have to side with the Providence Place homeowners in the Morrisville deal.
That tower site is right next to houses and would essentiall be like one lot in a cul de sac having a tower. Seems like a no brainer to put it on the other side of 540, which would be what, 700-800 feet away with no houses there now and in fact thats where the power lines are. Maybe the tower company should just put one up on one of the existing power line towers liek has been doen in several places in teh area already. I'm sure it will cost a littel more and may not be perfect as far as height, but it is crazy for them to say that people would not be harmed (house price wise) by their proposal.
Verizon LTE is going to be 700mhz so it will be even more resilient of a signal. I think ATT won some of the spectrum as well, but I haven't heard any plan from them about it.
Never notice the tower unless I look strait up in the air. It's a perception thing, you think it's an eye sore but it never bothers me.
I called one company asking about their return policy if I do NOT get the service I am told in my area.
They told me no termination fee for the first 15 days.
I said, is that it? I can then return the phones, they said yes.
I said, no restocking fee??
ONLY THEN did they say, yeah restocking fee $35 per phone.
So, if you buy two phones with the promise of coverage, find out you don't get the coverage you were promised and return the phones, you are charged $70. I thought we had buyer protection here but apparently these companies are ignoring buyer protection laws.
They force us to buy their phone, then load it up with spyware, then charge us if they cannot deliver the service the promised. Am I the only one that has a problem with this?
I called one company asking about their return policy if I do NOT get the service I am told in my area.
They told me no termination fee for the first 15 days.
I said, is that it? I can then return the phones, they said yes.
I said, no restocking fee??
ONLY THEN did they say, yeah restocking fee $35 per phone.
So, if you buy two phones with the promise of coverage, find out you don't get the coverage you were promised and return the phones, you are charged $70. I thought we had buyer protection here but apparently these companies are ignoring buyer protection laws.
They force us to buy their phone, then load it up with spyware, then charge us if they cannot deliver the service the promised. Am I the only one that has a problem with this?
The restock fee is because they cannot sell the phone as new anymore. You can, however, activate a phone you already own and test service that way without losing any money.
Before the smart phone era, they did not charge restock fees on phones. Dumb phones are cheap.
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