Verizon iPhone 4 - Elevator Test

Maybe it's because one operator has booster stations in your building?

I have this same issue. o2 UK have full reception everywhere in my 42 floor building but Vodafone don't. This is due to o2 having booster stations on each floor/elevator.

 

In LA I agree maybe there is a booster inside the building.

 

More than that. CDMA carriers tends to punch threw buildings better than GSM does.

 

Bingo.
Try that in other building elevators and then you'll say "can you hear me now?"

 

Don't tell JD914. He'll deny that a) you lose any AT&T signal inside the elevator and b) refute the fact that you get VZW signal in the elevator instead.

 

My test will be in the restroom. My AT&T iPhone no service. Verizon guys would have signals.

 

No booster needed.

The elevator scenario is common in some of the larger cities, where Verizon has always had a lot of building-penetrating 800MHz band coverage and AT&T did not.

However, in the past year, AT&T has started to add 850MHz signals in places like New York, and as a result actually had network overloads due to so many more people getting a usable signal inside buildings.

 

Hows data transfer in the elevator?

 

Very nice mate. Glad to hear that

 

It really depends on location and/or actually buildings. Some elevators I lose ATT signal while Verizon craps out, and vice versa. Same thing with basements.

 

There are some places you really don't want a signal... in my early cellphone days in my favorite bar you could get a signal if you sat to the left of the taps, but to the right was a dead zone... that was great!!