Thursday, October 11, 2007

Sell Tower Blues

Well, the new sell tower is on line, and guess what? The cell coverage is WORSE, at least for verizon. This is not just El Picador's experience, no sir. Many others have noticed the same thing. Where once we had coverage throughout the village, we now are dropping calls left and right--especially around fourth street. New phones, re-programming, upgrades, calls to tech support, you name it---nothing seems to help. Guess some sort of electromagnetic karma is at work here.

Larry would do well to note this before he makes the same mistake as some of his colleagues in other towns and tries to set up the wi-fi service he has bragged about in the Vision as another putative benefit of the X-mas pole. Bad service, broken promises and massive cost overruns have plagued these systems despite all of the rosy rhetoric of the sell providers. Why he wants the headache is beyond me--unless he is taking a page out of his friend the Shrub's book and is planning to use the wi-fi to spy on the informal e-mail networks used by his opponents.

No need to fear there. Sellular incompetence and overreach will keep us safe for a long time.

Just don't ditch your land lines or cable hookups!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Definitely I've seen a loss of service quality since the tree got plugged in. It's interesting but not a crisis that would cause me to whine for more towers.

Anonymous said...

More towers might make it EVEN WORSE. Yet the rug thug promised improvement and tired to scare everyone with E911 not working, etc.....Well, E911 doesn't work in most of the state, sell towers of no, because the emergency services don't have the proper equipment. Larry knew that and took us for a ride in his hummer.