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Cell Service At US Airports Varies From 1st Class To Middle-seat Coach
alphadogg writes with this NetworkWorld story about the wide disparity in wireless coverage available at airports across the U.S.. Atlanta scores very high while Los Angeles International is less than mediocre. According to the story: You can download an episode of your favorite show in less than a minute and a half on Verizon Wireless at Atlanta's airport—or spend 13 hours doing the same over T-Mobile USA at Los Angeles International. The comparison of 45-minute HD video downloads illustrates the wide variation in cellular service at U.S. airports, which RootMetrics laid out in a report for the first half of 2015 that's being issued Thursday. Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson is the best place to go mobile and Verizon covers airports best overall, but just like security lines and de-icing delays, it all depends.
LAX T-Mobile service was pretty good for me just a few weeks ago, way better than the LAX WiFi!
I've pretty much given up on airports and hotels to provide usable WiFi, I just tether now pretty much anywhere if possible.
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News at 11! Cell coverage is not the same at all locations!
Thems what pays more gets more and better. It has always been thus and so shall it always be.
Complaining about it is for pinko pussies and the like. Get a real job pleb! Oh and fetch me a pillow for my feet while you're at it.
Not sure how things work in America, but in Australia most of us have 1 - 3GB bandwidth limits on mobile phone plans; presumably Americans also face similar constraints (or will at some point, as there's only so many ways to reduce congestion). A 45 minute HD video could approach 1GB, depending on compression, so you're not super likely to be streaming them. You'd also face significantly less bandwidth in a higher populated airport, and might actually receive less bandwidth in a region that has better mobile coverage by a specific provider due to the higher number of people likely to be using their service at said airport.
Can we get some ACTUAL numbers instead of just some bullshit article describing some vague numbers? As T-Mobile has already pointed out, according to Ookla (ya'know, speedtest.net and a few other services that provide data to the Ookla database), they come out on top on average in the nation. Granted average doesn't mean they're the best at every given location, but being a frequent traveler, I can easily attest that, no, T-Mobile's network isnt anywhere NEAR that slow at LAX. Also, what handsets were they using and in which modes? While other networks offer LTE server, T-Mobile has both LTE and HSDPA+ if the handset supports it. So which of these two networks were they testing?
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The thing that kills me is that T-Mobile service is TERRIBLE at the University of Houston. Especially in the student center. Zero bars in large areas of the building.
It's great in many other parts of town. Service absolutely sucks at the DFW Convention Center (zero bars).
I can sort of understand DFW. Basically 2,000 business travellers for a big convention- who probably are not mostly T-Mobile users anyway.
But why on earth would you allow 45,000 young people who are deciding what phone to use, pretty much for life, have such a terrible experience on campus?
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Almost every international airport I go to in Asia or Europe have WiFi free of charge. I was so shock when I went to JFK in New York and find out you have to pay for WiFi after a short free trial (like 20 mins). Of course I'm tourist and just visiting so I don't have phone service, sovhaving WiFi to talk to the people I'm visiting is necessary. Just pathetic that they try to charge for that. I thought every airport had free WiFi by now, and trying to ask for phone to borrow is not fun. As well as how bad the US is with visas (my country gives Americans 90 days free, why do I need a visa for yours?) Also, bad airport service and ridiculous body inspection by angry airport workers is not fun.
Maybe other US airport is better but JFK is by far the worst international airport I've been to in years.
Since when is data access cellular service?
Silly me, I thought cellular service metrics were about call completion and drop rates.
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In my travels I have found that US airports vary widely in availability of electric outlets for charging devices. For a while a lot of them were making them only available on a pay-per-use basis. Others had outlets freely available but not enough of them.
Cell service is nice and all, but being as I'm flying steerage class where I pretty well never get an outlet to plug anything in to, I'm more interested in what I can do to charge my devices before the cattle call for boarding comes up. Doubly so at hub airports where I am connecting.
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"You can download an episode of your favorite show in less than a minute and a half on Verizon Wireless at Atlanta's airportâ""
Except if you are an international traveler, in that case your GSM world phone won't talk to Verizon's CDMA nightmare.
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