Have you recently had issues with dropped calls? If the answer is yes, then you’re not alone. Last week, when Steve Jobs was onstage and talking about the Apple iPhone 4’s faulty antenna, he mentioned that he couldn’t give statistics concerning AT&T’s dropped calls. Well, that’s news. Every other mobile service provider had that information made public. Anyone who checked it out online was able to see the truth. ChangeWave had published the results and they had AT&T at the lead of dropped calls at 4.5% with the second worst, T-Mobile, trailing behind them at 2.8%.
There are many factors as to why certain calls are more likely to drop than others. The first deals with the phone itself. Certain phones are just more likely to drop calls than others, a certain popular previously mentioned phone in particular. Another factor is your network. Smartphone users and other 3G service providers are more likely to drop calls because they overall handle more data. And the final and probably most determining factor is location. Bad areas for service are ones with poor coverage, like in rural areas, or even sometimes in overpopulated urban area, where there may be too many users in one area for service to be provided to all.
An intelligent response to such issues would be to provide yourself with a signal booster. Such devices can detect signals that your phone may not be able to pick up ordinarily and boosts them to give you a better service connection. These devices are available to be mobile or can boost cell signals other ways. One of the best-selling cell phone boosters is the Wilson Sleek. It rates as one of the best in boosting your mobile service and it’s portable.
