I live in an neighborhood where all the lines are buried. There is nothing wrong with my phone anywhere else I've gone and as soon as I drive out of the neighborrhood it gets better. Verizon says there is a tower a half a mile from me and that I should have no problems. Even said they sent someone out and they had no problems. But everyone I have talked to in my neighborhood says they have the same problem. The buried power lines is the only thing I can think of, because it is the only thing that is different about my neighborhood that I can see. Anyone else had this problem?
2006-08-19 22:01:51 · 9 answers · asked by srm1507 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
Buried Power lines do not seem to me to be a logical reason for your Cell phone problem. The Power lines operate a a frequency of 60HZ or 60 cycles per second you can hear that frequency when you are near a big transformer, they call it 60 cycle hum. 60Hz is not a good transmitting frequency, in fact it is absolutely poor at radio transmission. Even the low end of the AM dial is 106KHz or 106000 cycles and that frequency is way below your cell phone frequency of 600-800MHz or 800,000,000 cycles per second.
The cell phone is a "Line of Site" system, the phone must have a direct line of uninterrupted space between it and the tower. The cell transmission will pass through some walls and windows if you are very close to a tower but the signal will drop very quickly as it is shadowed by walls or other obstructions.
Even if the tower is close, your 1/2 mile, it still may be shadowed by a hill or other buildings. One other thing, is the signal strength around a tower is not a circle, the towers signal may be very egg-shaped, called lobes, and is actually aimed in another direction.
The mysteries of wave propagation are many and deep.
I don't think the power-lines are your culprit.
Yours: Grumpy
PS: I have used my cell phone in the middle of very large power plants and electrical substations with no change in the cell signal, while losing a signal just walking from one street corner to the other side of the street. It is frustrating.
2006-08-19 22:28:02 · answer #1 · answered by Grumpy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe yes!!!
Because they generate an electric field and there is a possibility that they interfere with telephone signals.
Nevertheless, i don't think that this is necessarily the case as many engineers work on this problem before eventually burying the wires. They put the wires deep enough so that they do not cause any nuisance.
So, i think that, in your case, the problem is something else unless the engineers are unqualified people, having passed their exams by mere cheating.
2006-08-19 22:10:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They shouldn't.
Cell towers power the cell phones NOT your BURIED POWER LINES!
There might be another underlying reason. Magnetic pull? Steel buildings? Something else Verizon isn't picking up on???
Call & ask other phone services OR you Land Line phone companies & ask them! They might give you a better answer than what Verizon is!
2006-08-19 22:09:38 · answer #3 · answered by jennifersuem 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The power lines are wrapped in insulation, filtered and completely buried underground. They don't give off signals. Your phone is getting interference from something else. Get a different phone.
2006-08-19 22:09:07 · answer #4 · answered by viewAskew 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It did. even with the shown fact that, strains tended to interrupt, and digging them out develop right into a substantial project till one knew precisely the place the wreck got here approximately. putting the strains into the air made it plenty much less perplexing to come across the place the breaks have been, and subsequently plenty much less perplexing to repair. they are slowly yet certainly burying the strains - electrical energy, telephone, cable etc. - and putting them into conduits alongside with different utilities, even with the shown fact that that's no longer a rapid technique, and it may inconvenience a lot of human beings whilst that's being achieved.
2016-12-11 11:55:13 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I Have buried lined in my neighborhood I don't have that problem my self but I have heard this before if there is a above ground transformer that has a leak it will the culprit
2006-08-19 22:08:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Probably.
2006-08-19 22:06:05 · answer #7 · answered by double v 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No. Dirt spoils the show.
2006-08-19 22:06:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
no they dont!
2006-08-19 22:05:25 · answer #9 · answered by J P 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋