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czarembo
Network Novice
Hace 3 años

Blanket signals on the hills where houses are rather than the valleys with the cows and corn?

I live in a suburban to rural part of western Washington state.  It's called the Lakewood area (between Stanwood, Arlington, Smokey Point and Tulalip) There are many homes that surround Lake Goodwin, Lake Ki and other smaller lakes..  T-Mobile has some excellent tower sites, but is lacking sufficient bandwidth to reach much of this area with 5G UC.  The area is definitely residential.  

To this point, T-Mobile has captured fairly well the busy I-5 corridor to the east, but it has also captured some fairly sparsely populated areas, areas near Stanwood and Island Crossing where corn and cows predominate, rather than where people populate.

I'm hopeful that these more populated but underserved residential areas will receive some extra attention in the near future.   The service keeps getting better, but is just out of reach for some.  

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  • czarembo's avatar
    czarembo
    Network Novice
    Hace 3 años

    No sooner did I write this, when T-Mobile came through again.  Before I wrote this I should have checked my cell phone signal icon, because no sooner than I mentioned T-Mobile increasing coverage the improved coverage materialized in a concrete manner.  My cell phone went from 5G to 5G U/C.  

     

    I'm guessing that T-Mobile as soon they read of my complaint and plea - turned a switch and my problem was solved!  Just kidding.  But my coverage improved dramatically.  I guess I'm just lucky, or perhaps T-Mobile was acting at systematically and steadily improving their coverage.  I think I"ll go for the latter.

     

    Thanks T-Mobile, you just keep getting better and better!