There are parts of rural America where cell phones work but that isn’t the case at our house. Neighbors who have less trees or less metal on their roofs or sit higher on hills can get service but we cannot. We have a microcell that works off the internet and the way I understand, it somehow boosts the signal so our cell phones work. AT&T is the only service that halfway works out here. When friends were visiting recently, they had another national provider and they said they lost service completely about 20 miles from our house.
Sunday night, during the Super Bowl, when our electricity went off for a few minutes, the microcell never came back on. I said . . fine . . I can live without a cell phone at home. Vince . . who never turns his cell phone on and when I do say “grab your phone”, he says “the battery is dead” . . decided we HAVE to have a working cell phone so he’s been talking to AT&T all week.
Microcell
I just got this in my email so I guess he’s finally convinced AT&T that the microcell is not going to work and they’re sending us a new on
Ranch Wife says
When we moved here, there was a house phone, but it was just hooked up to a bag phone on a pole behind the house a ways. When everything changed to digital,, we couldn’t use it anymore so we were phone-less.We never could get cell service around here either. We’re right between 2 towns that are 75 miles apart. A few years ago, a company asked to put up a cell tower on the ranch up on the main road. Still couldn’t get service until some of the major phone companies installed dishes on the tower. Now we’ve got service unless we’re running around the ranch. The only Internet we can get is through Hughes Net and we can’t stream Netflix through it, Still, wouldn’t change where we are for anything. If worse comes to worse, I think smoke signals still work! 🙂
Linda says
I’d be totally lost. My cell phone is my only phone.
Diana says
My daughters yell at me if I dont have my cell phone on me so they can get ahold of me !LOL
Susan says
I’m not going into my battles with AT&T over internet in the last six weeks, but I really laugh every time I get either an e-mail, a letter or a phone call and someone says how I’m the most important part of AT&T. =)