Mobile phone questions

[Kissing Lettuce]

First off are signal dropouts caused by moving from one
cell and then into another? and when you move from
an open area to say inside a building or behind a hill or
a 'dark spot' where there is less signal penetration....

Would allowing you to roam between networks when the
signal level drops below a certain point solve the problem
and if it would why aren't the networks allowing this to
happen? It surely wouldn't be a cost to them to allow for
this would it?

 

[Rod Speed]

Kissing Lettuce <sittinginaninternetcafe@hotmail.com>
wrote in message news:42A9274A.A4F5C97B@hotmail.com...

First off are signal dropouts caused by
moving from one cell and then into another?

Not usually.

and when you move from an open area to say inside a building or
behind a hill or a 'dark spot' where there is less signal penetration....

Usually.

Would allowing you to roam between networks when the
signal level drops below a certain point solve the problem

Usually.

and if it would why aren't the networks allowing this to happen?

Nothing in it for them in most situations.

It surely wouldn't be a cost to them to allow for this would it?

Corse it does, they have to pay for the use of the other networks.