Case study: Griping about signal quality can produce results

I have had the exact same problems at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, CA ever since I bought my iPhone 3G 2 years ago and still have the problem with my new iPhone 4. It's very frustrating that I can't do ANYTHING in my seat. And like it's mentioned in the article, ATT is a huge sponser and has a huge banner promoting their faster speeds and best coverage bullsh#%. It would be nice if anything if there was a free WIFI hotspot but alas there is nothing.

Isn't it a bit sad, you go to a Baseball game to watch baseball, why waste your time to relax and to enjoy the game by sitting and tinkering with your tech, don't you wish you could escape from your phone.....can just imagine how ridiculous it must look people walking around the staduim while the game is in play waving their phones around and trying to get better signal forgetting the reason why they are at the staduim in the first place....

I'm not surprised this happened. If anything I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. My wife used to work for the St. Louis Blues (NHL team) at the Scottrade Center in downtown St. Louis. Their offices were below ground level, at about the same level as the ice. Anyway, inside her offices there was no signal with Sprint phones. AT&T and Verizon had great signals. Turns out AT&T and Verizon were sponsors, and had installed cell repeaters inside the building. Sprint, not being a sponsor, never bothered. The wife actually talked her way out of her Spring contract over this. It took about a week, and about 10 phone calls, but she made it happen.

Our office is a block away from Coors Field. ATT finally got tired of giving us $500 monthly credits for the lack of service.

I just had the same experience at Citizens Bank Park this past weekend. When I got off the subway the station was renamed to AT&T Plaza and there was a large advertisement above right field. On top of that, my Iphone actually works at the park now.

Visiting Boston this week and had this very problem at Fenway on Wednesday night. Three or four bars most of the time, but no data and no calls.

PITA.

I live in a small resort community on a beautiful lake in upstate New York. AT&T service here is horrible. I had to buy a microcell to use my iPhone at home. I have used the AT&T marks the spot app a LOT and I've called AT&T a lot too. I actually have seen some improvement in cell service. It's still not great but it's gotten better. Every time I see anyone using an iPhone I ask them about the quality of their service. When they inevitably complain I tell them about the AT&T marks the spot app and I ask them to install and use it. I think it's helped.

Now, if they would only upgrade the one and only cell tower west of Loveland, CO that does not have 3G. I have to turn 3G off on my iPhone when ever I am at home because the phone rotates between "No Signal", "Searching" and "E" continuously. I am assuming that it sees a wee bit of 3G signal from a tower near Longmont and gets confused.

They gave us free AT&T wifi here in the chi at wrigley and the surrounding area to lessen the strain on the networks. Pretty cool.

I have a few areas here in Denver where I get 5 bars but no connection. I need to remember to do this! Thanks for sharing this.