geepondy
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Ok, finally in a little borough in northern NH, bordering Vermont area I can finally get cell phone reception. Reason being is they erected a tower in Lancaster, NH (Mount Orne). I know for sure tower services Unicel and US Cellular not sure on other carriers. At Dad's my Razer with AT&T service which I know uses the unicell tower in that location is either full bars or full bars minus one regardless of where I am in the house. So Dad is intrigued and I get him a Tracfone to see how he likes it. I get him a Kyocera K126C and buy him some minutes. Funny thing is, his phone reception is much poorer then mine, only one to three bars out of five. I look up info on the phone and find it's a CDMA phone. Also the phone indicates a 1X network which I know is CDMA from my Verizon days. So unless Verizon is the only one that uses the 1X technology, I'm assuming tracfone is using the USCelluar part of the tower unless Verizon has service there too. A year ago, I could not get Verizon service either so if signal is Verizon, I'm assuming it also must be originating from that tower.
So any explanations why the differences in signal strength? Could it simply be a phone issue where the Kyocera is really a crappy phone or does GSM provide further range the CDMA? Is there a way to find out for sure if the phone is using the US Cellular carrier? Upon further research I see the store where I bought the phone has a Motorola phone with a sim card so I know it must be GSM. I wish I had boughten that instead. If this phone doesn't work out, I wonder how difficult it is to transfer activated minutes from one tracfone to another.
So any explanations why the differences in signal strength? Could it simply be a phone issue where the Kyocera is really a crappy phone or does GSM provide further range the CDMA? Is there a way to find out for sure if the phone is using the US Cellular carrier? Upon further research I see the store where I bought the phone has a Motorola phone with a sim card so I know it must be GSM. I wish I had boughten that instead. If this phone doesn't work out, I wonder how difficult it is to transfer activated minutes from one tracfone to another.