Verizon Change in Tower Sharing ???

Does anyone know,
or suggest somewhere to verify
if Verizon has discontinued their tower sharing contract
with US Cellular or other providers in our area (Lake County, CA)?

I've posted elsewhere here about our change in service quality
and this suggestion by a Verizon Tech would offer a plausible
explanation. Though, not surprisingly, the Tech could not/would not
veriify this for our area.

Thanks
CR

Those are usually long term leases and doubtful that
a change in coverage would caused by this. That and the
very high cost of re-engineering, provisioning backhaul, etc
make this very unlikely.


"Redigoogle" <redicliff@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:b1ec3168-c4f6-4a55-a88e-feb2288c03e5@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Does anyone know,
> or suggest somewhere to verify
> if Verizon has discontinued their tower sharing contract
> with US Cellular or other providers in our area (Lake County, CA)?
>
> I've posted elsewhere here about our change in service quality
> and this suggestion by a Verizon Tech would offer a plausible
> explanation. Though, not surprisingly, the Tech could not/would not
> veriify this for our area.
>
> Thanks
> CR

On Jul 10, 3:54 pm, "Ness-Net" <richard.nod...@nessnet.spam.com>
wrote:
> Those are usually long term leases and doubtful that
> a change in coverage would caused by this. That and the
> very high cost of re-engineering, provisioning backhaul, etc
> make this very unlikely.
>
Your point is well taken.

Though Verizon moved into the area only three years ago and might not
they have anticipated the anlalog drop
and construction of digital cells in their lease negotiation?

Didn't someone mention/explain how the new cells were lower power and
lower to the ground.
This would seem verfied by Verizons claim to having towers in the two
small towns near me that boarder the lake.
and really not visible.
The visible tower are on a mountain ridge.

I don't know. It's little more than idle speculation I guess
and time to upgrade my phone software or get a newer phone.

thanks for the response.
cliff

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:44:12 -0700 (PDT), Redigoogle
<redicliff@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Jul 10, 3:54 pm, "Ness-Net" <richard.nod...@nessnet.spam.com>
>wrote:
>> Those are usually long term leases and doubtful that
>> a change in coverage would caused by this. That and the
>> very high cost of re-engineering, provisioning backhaul, etc
>> make this very unlikely.
>>
>Your point is well taken.
>
>Though Verizon moved into the area only three years ago and might not
>they have anticipated the anlalog drop
>and construction of digital cells in their lease negotiation?

They should have had a clue about it even that far back. Digital
service has been in general use for over 10 years.

>Didn't someone mention/explain how the new cells were lower power and
>lower to the ground.

It depends on the location.

>This would seem verfied by Verizons claim to having towers in the two
>small towns near me that boarder the lake.
>and really not visible.

It all depends on who is doing the claiming. Our local VZW techs used
to claim every tower in town was theirs, even when the tower owners'
databases and the visible equipment on-site said otherwise.

>The visible tower are on a mountain ridge.
>
>I don't know. It's little more than idle speculation I guess
>and time to upgrade my phone software or get a newer phone.

If there is a firmware upgrade, I'd try that first. As for a new
phone, try to find someone with a VZW phone that works in the areas
that concern you, and try to get the same model. And be sure to take
advantage of their return policy if a new phone doesn't yield better
results.

On the topic of tower owner databases, it's been a long, long time
since I've searched through them, but here are the links I've used to
determine the owners of and carriers on the towers in my area.

Crown Communication - http://www.crowncastle.com/
National Wireless Construction - http://www.nwconline.com/
SBA Towers - http://www.sbasite.com/
American Tower - http://www.americantower.com/atcweb

On Jul 10, 9:17 pm, The Ghost of General Lee <gh...@general.lee>
wrote:
>
> On the topic of tower owner databases, it's been a long, long time
> since I've searched through them, but here are the links I've used to
> determine the owners of and carriers on the towers in my area.
>
> Crown Communication -http://www.crowncastle.com/
> National Wireless Construction -http://www.nwconline.com/
> SBA Towers -http://www.sbasite.com/
> American Tower -http://www.americantower.com/atcweb

Excellent
Thank you
Cliff