6 ms·
San Diego Cell Service Possibly Affected by New Operator in Mexico
- SamReidHughes 7y agoHuh. I've had reception issues in certain parts of UTC. Which is a bit farther up than North Park.
- KingFelix 7y agoWho do you have for a provider?
- SamReidHughes 7y agoVerizon
- Eiriksmal 7y agoMy experience is that many areas along San Diego's coast have weird deadzones because of its topography. When I was on Verizon, any time I went to the southernmost parts of Point Loma, my phone would roam to Tijuana and throw up warnings about extra charges for placing calls. There's no land mass between the lighthouse on Point Loma and TJ's hills. Last week, on T-Mobile, I stumbled into a few spots along Sunset Cliffs that resulted in a complete drop of coverage. I suppose the center of Point Loma's hill blocks wherever the nearest tower is? I haven't noticed any fake palm trees in residential areas like that.
- edmundsauto 7y agoI used to work as a contractor on the base by the lighthouse, and can help explain this. The Navy is doing all kinds of radio experiments there, and (what I was told), it hugely impacts reception in the area.
- wolco 7y agoHave you seen any interesting aircraft?
- trazire 7y agoI think that's normal. Walking around La Jolla, a lot of places have no reception (on Sprint).
- jonknee 7y ago> on Sprint Found the problem!
- trazire 7y agoSeen it for other networks as well (TMo, ATT, Verizon).
- SamReidHughes 7y agoYeah, the reason I'm with Verizon and not T-Mobile is the better reception. I haven't noticed problems in that one area until recently.
- zootme 7y agoI work in Sorrento Valley and have experienced pretty consistent reception issues here. Spent the weekend in Poway and no trouble there.
- pg_is_a_butt 7y agoMaybe shouldn't have built that wall. They didn't like that.
- jedberg 7y agoI remember when there was a pirate radio station that was broadcasting from just over the Mexican border. It was in English and it was alt-rock, and their DJs would just swear and violate all the FCC rules and no one could do anything about it. It's amazing how radios don't care about international borders. :)
- Svip 7y agoRadio Free Europe worked (works?) on the same principle.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- bsagdiyev 7y ago91X broadcasts out of Tijuana as well, I believe. Broadcasting stops at midnight for the Mexican national anthem before resuming.
- lozaning 7y agoMexican national anthem at midnight and 5AM, as well as a lot of mexican public service announcements and election advertising.
- ilaksh 7y agoI am from San Diego and it is actually a little weird because you'd be driving along rocking out and routinely there is like a government propaganda style commercial from some agency in Mexico being read in English by someone with a faint Spanish accent in a way that was simultaneously enthusiastic but also clearly being read off of a page. It is usually about something like "don't worry we are making the government suck less especially if you vote for us" if I recall correctly. I now live in Mexico. The burger place next door plays an American radio station and it seems to be one that never has those messages.
- GhettoMaestro 7y ago
- emilyen235 7y agoGood
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- will_pseudonym 7y agoI'm on a Mexican Radio. [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw
- tomc1985 7y agoFunny, people in the r/sandiego reddit thread have been complaining about sudden problems with Verizon service
- vermontdevil 7y agoThe same issue if you are near Canada border in Michigan. Specifically along the lake north of Port Huron. (Lakeport State Park etc). Every time we go to that area my phone is “hijacked” by Rogers or Telus. And I can’t get the phone to stay with AT&T. Then ATT will start informing us we are on international roaming. I’ve explained to ATT many times we are in Michigan. No dice. So we just switch to airport until we get back to Port Huron. Can’t understand how ATT is overpowered by Canadian cell services which is across the lake! But no issues when I’m in Port Huron and Canada is across the river!
- Keverw 7y agoI kinda always wondered how that worked. I wonder if people near the border call 911 and get Canadian dispatchers... Hopefully there is a protocol though for both sides of borders to transfer to the right agency in case of a emergency of some sorts. I have a prepaid plan so no roaming for me... but some day I’ll get a actual plan but it’s nice to save money, but have to ration data but have WiFi most of the time. But sounds like if lived in a border town I might be stuck getting a better plan if it wants to roam even while still at home. If I went to more places instead of being home on WiFi mostly or traveled a bunch definitely upgrading. Kinda undecided on what carrier yet but much more choices than when I got my first phone in middle school and kept the same number since.