Redigoogle <redicliff@yahoo.com> wrote in news:f66fff45-11e4-4e7f-9553-
696aa8c478db@z16g2000prn.googlegroups.com:

> That's interesting.
> So, why (or how) do users of higher end Verizon phones reports better
> reception.
> There is certainly more than subjective difference.
> Three years ago, I noticed a difference between my vx4500 and whatever
> phone was down the scale VX3200 or something.
>
>

"Reception" infers the signal coming out of the tower and INTO your
receiver. Towers have far more signal than Sellphones transmit. The
receivers are custom ICs, now.

The companies, including wonderful Verizon, are doing everything they can
to expand the number of calls made per square mile in populated areas,
where the money is. So, as you'll notice on the old AMPS towers, the
antennas are way down near the ground, now, and mini cells have been
erected with antennas only 100' high, instead of the old, powerful 500'
tall AMPS towers that covered a 10 mile circle, and still do out on the
boonies. To accomplish this increase in system load, they must reduce
the footprint of each tower, use lots of towers, then drop the power of
your handset so you don't light up too many of the low-profile, low
powered towers at once.

There's no reason to care about your own "range" or "reception".

A lot of the "reception" difference is more PERCEPTION....unless it has
an 800 Mhz pullup antenna you can extend to increase antenna efficiency
next to your head. New phones have no antenna but a piece of wire on the
circuit board....the best reason for the poor service from transmitter
and receiver.