Ocean Pines Tower

[PtBreak]

Anyone know what cell carriers are on the OP tower? Noticed today Verizon finally turned on C-Band n77 @100mhz when I was getting off of 90. Normally service has been pretty poor over there and they didn’t have UW5G yet.


Figured that might be the site they turned on.

 

[W4EMS]

Might try this link if it is for a cell phone tower.
Antenna Search

 

[maus92]

Side note that the Ocean Pines Police chief is pushing for the town to provide land for a cell phone tower to improve service throughout the community, perhaps adjacent to the north fire substation. Cellphone service in the area is notoriously spotty. I assume that any vendor could rent space for their infrastructure.

 

[PtBreak]

Side note that the Ocean Pines Police chief is pushing for the town to provide land for a cell phone tower to improve service throughout the community, perhaps adjacent to the north fire substation. Cellphone service in the area is notoriously spotty. I assume that any vendor could rent space for their infrastructure.

Verizon has made some good improvements over the past year or so however the service is still spotty. Pretty sure it’s due to the pine trees but I could be wrong

 

[maus92]

It is the trees - that's why coverage engineering / testing should be done in the Fall after the leaves are down. But then again, OP has lots of pine trees with needles that apparently attenuate RF around 7-800 MHz where some carriers (and public safety) provide service.

 

[PtBreak]

It is the trees - that's why coverage engineering / testing should be done in the Fall after the leaves are down. But then again, OP has lots of pine trees with needles that apparently attenuate RF around 7-800 MHz where some carriers (and public safety) provide service.

Only thing I could see as a fix would be a bunch of DAS poles like OC did with crown castle. However I’m sure that the residents would oppose them, other than home lte extenders I don’t see any other way.

 

[maus92]

No poles for sure, thus no 5G which is more suitable for dense urban centers anyway. Those with internet and wifi could enable the wifi calling function in their mobile phones for indoor coverage.