Cell Phone Boosters

Every network has dead spots. ATT & Verizon have fewer or smaller dead spots than the other networks. My Verizon was good in most places except some deep valleys in MT or vast desert regions of OR and AZ. I like the peace and quiet.

 

That is exactly what the boosters are for, most of them work with all the major carriers and they fill in the dead spots. One point that the cell phone providers never mention in their sales pitch is that many of the more remote towers are privately owned by third parties that sell usage to multiple provider so at the end of the day if you are in a more remote area no matter what carrier you have you are often on a tower owned by another company.

 

I had one set up at one of my rural houses where I got really bad service, and it worked really well. It came with U-bolts that fit perfectly over a load lock, then I stuck the load lock between the roof and the ground and pointed it towards the tower. If your truck has the spot to put load locks on the back of the sleeper, you could probably use that and then point it towards the tower with the best signal.

 

Doesn’t matter what company you use if there’s no signal

in many rural areas there simply is no tower and no signal .

I have two phones, one personal and one work phone and one is Verizon and one is AT&T

my hunting shack has a half bar ,it’s in the mountains , back in a cove and there simply isn’t any signal and that’s it . And that’s if there’s no storm or no clouds or whatever to block the signal , and in the summer when the leaves are all on the trees , it’s even less signal .



I’ve been to lots of rural job sites that have zero signal .
None .
The nearest signal is 10 or 15 miles away.

 

The mobile versions have an antenna that works in all directions . And it costs a little extra
The stationary version has a directional antenna that you have to aim at the tower
And the apps that show the tower locations are useless in mountains .

thw nearest tower at my shack is not the one the signal comes from

 

I understand but if your phone is with some carrier with no towers near you or within range of your booster the biggest booster in the world isn't going to connect your non-ATT/Verizon phone to the nearby ATT or Verizon tower. Heck some Verizon towers won't even connect to Verizon customers that are pre-paid customers and not the standard post-paid customers. For example, for a while Visible customers, which connect to Verizon, couldn't connect to many Verizon towers because they were blocked by Verizon. There was a large area almost from Bowling Green, KY to almost Louisville where Visible phones (a discount wing owned by Verizon) would have no connection. That dead-spot is now open to Visible customers. I would avoid T-Mobile unless all of your trucking is in major cities and on the interstate highways between major cities. I beg you to look at Howard Forums web site as it is full of experts on cellphones and networks and not fellow drivers that just act like experts because we work alone. I know I don't know everything that is why I go to where the experts in other fields discuss their field and learn from them. Some drivers wouldn't breathe air unless they got permission from another truck driver. I don't know why some people refuse to ever step away from the one place they are comfortable, but some people are like that. Read one thread discussing some legal matter and you will see people with no legal training arguing heatedly about a topic neither of them may know anything about. There is important, non-obvious, information that people outside of some specialized area don't know. Not every topic is exactly as outsiders expect.

 

Knowing the areas where the OP runs a booster may help in some spots but there will still be areas in the NW where you simply don’t have service.

 

Please do. I have thought about getting one as well.

 

I don't recommend att

There service has been severely lacking as of late. And I'm local.

I was hoping my new phone would be better but it's not. Even my tablet sucks. Ended up buying a newer tablet through Verizon. I may switch my phone over to them.

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I'd lose my free HBO. Not that I watch it anyways.