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Ride Along With a Real Verizon Wireless Tester
jonknee writes "So you're probably sick of the Can you hear me now? ads, but here's a new article about a real-life Verizon Wireless network tester. This guy logs over 3,000 miles a month in a station wagon decked out with over a quarter-million dollars worth of network gear (I dare say the most valuable station wagon ever?). An audio file is linked at the bottom of the article that has a few minute sample of the audio Verizon tests with. It's bizarre!"
"Dropped calls for Verizon Wireless are pretty rare these days, with some months of testing seeing none."
Well that's all fine and dandy for them. Unfortunately, I get a dropped call or two each week, in an area Verizon advertises as being completely covered.
Extension: AMR Program and/or Extension Function Company Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec Specific Notes Speech encoding format used in GSM telephony. MIME Type What's This? File Classification Associated Links * Player * Background Paper Identifying Characters: Hex: 23 21 41 4D 52 0A 34 ASCII: #!AMR.4
Nothing for you to see here, Please move along.
Driving around with a cell phone will tell you you're losing your signal.
Driving around with an HP 8563 spectrum analyzer and a standard-gain antenna will tell you why you're losing your signal.
This is sorta important if you're in the cell-phone business.