On Feb 7, 9:35 am, "EpsilonRho" wrote:
My mother lives in a area where the cell-phone signal is very weak.
Typically I can get only one mark on the phone field strength meter. That
forces me to go outside the house in order to have a reasonable chance of
completing a call (of course only if the weather permits).

Have you tried other carriers? At my house a Sprint only works
outside in the back yard while T-mobile and Cingular have no issues
inside. It could be that your carrier just has lousy coverage because
your house is to far away from their cell tower (or the antenna on the
tower is not pointed directly at you).

Another option is to complain to your carrier about signal strength
and hope they get around to changing it sometime soon (not likely by
the way.)

Third, is try another phone on your carrier of choice. I've seen
different phones have vastly different abilities under the exact same
circumstances even on the same carrier.

-= bob =-