SOUND OFF: Where Are the Worst Mobile Phone Service Dead Spots?
Tell us where the places are where cellphone service invariably drops.
We all know where they are: the parts of town where you always seem to lose a cellphone connection.
Dead spots.
The places to avoid if you need to be on a mobile phone.
For example, in my experience, every time I drive through parts of Chestnut Hill, if I'm on a call, I lose it.
So where are the worst places you know for cellphone service? Where do calls drop almost every time?
Melanie Graham
11:26 am on Friday, September 14, 2012
For me: AT&T service in Chestnut Hill. LaGrange Street near W. Rox and Brookline lines is particularly awful.
Judith Otto
9:02 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Maybe because you shouldn't be driving while phoning?
Brian McCormick
11:38 am on Friday, September 14, 2012
I live in the Perkins School area of Watertown and can't use my cell phone at home.
Martin Flagg
11:55 am on Friday, September 14, 2012
Near Winchester Country Club. I think they jam cell phone service so can't nobody talk on their cell phones while on their course. Never fails, whenever i drive by there, my call gets dropped.
Judith Otto
9:03 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Maybe because you shouldn't be driving while phoning?
Josh
12:49 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012
AT&T coverage is horrible in Watertown. Here's a map showing where their towers are.
http://www.cellreception.com/towers/towers.php?city=watertown&state_abr=ma&filter_att=1
Phil
2:47 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012
Verizon service almost always drops on the Green Line for a stretch between Chestnut Hill and Newton Center stations.
MARIE
7:37 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012
On wildwood st from the Kraft building to the gas station is terrible
Sue Doucet
7:39 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012
Lexington Street in Waltham. No service or barely any in the Wal-lex and Shaw's plazas.. how does the Verizon store stay in business there???
Steven Wenckus
12:17 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Totten Pond Rd Every time!!!!
Judith Otto
9:01 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Maybe because you shouldn't be driving while phoning?
Mike H
8:25 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Mass Pike between 128 and Route 30 -- anytime I am on a call and driving thru that stretch, the call drops. (AT&T)
Judith Otto
9:01 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Maybe because you shouldn't be driving while phoning?
Chris Clapp
9:37 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Judith Otto- Try contributing something constructive towards the topic of the article instead of trolling the site with your righteous attitude. Do you even own a cell phone or get out much? You sound like fun.
Judith Otto
11:25 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
No, I'm not much fun, Chris, when drivers on cell phones consistently threaten my granddaughter's life. So here's the constructive comment you requested: Don't use a cell phone while driving. Your attention to your own safety and the safety of others is compromised when you do. And yes, I use a cell phone, and pull off the road to do so. And I get out often enough to be scared by drivers talking on their cells, and it seems like that's almost everyone these days.
Grahame Turner
9:04 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Judith Otto, please don't "spam" your responses. Saying the same thing over and over again--even if you feel strongly about it--can be annoying on the web, where we can already see it the first time you posted it. I think that is more what Chris Clapp and others are responding to. Feel free to disagree, just try to mix it up. Thanks!
Earnhardt
11:30 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
@ Judith Otto. please make sure you pull far enough off the road to avoid being hit or causing an obstruction in the road. After all It's your granddaughter we are talking about. And not only your life, but the lives of others, So don't YOU be a road hazard either, And By the way..Stop with the righteousness. People can get scared by someone pulled over to use a cell phone also, especially at night.
Chris Clapp
11:41 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Judith, when you do pull off the road to safely conduct a phone call- are there any areas that you notice cell dead spots?
Earnhardt
11:51 am on Saturday, September 15, 2012
@ Chris Clapp: LOLOLOLOLOL
Faydeen Sateriale
12:37 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Wow ... I got absolutely nothing out of the answers to this question except that we need a bigger soapbox?!??!
Earnhardt
12:41 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
So then Faydeen, where do you notice a dead spot?
Faydeen Sateriale
12:50 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
I was pulled over into a parking lot of off 62 in Wilmington just after getting off of 38 and just couldn't get any bars ... then, I pulled into another parking lot about 750 feet away and got a signal.
Faydeen Sateriale
1:53 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
I don't want a soapbox ... but the dialog here seemed to need one. I clicked to read where the dead spots were ... not get a lecture. That's all. I never judge or preach to anyone.
Earnhardt
4:44 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Jeez it took you almost a half hour to come back.. you are losing your edge... I left the @ off on purpose... again my point has been proven. Now I can truly enjoy my evening. you get the last.. I won't respond... Thanks for proving me out! :)
Andrea Tracey
4:38 pm on Sunday, September 16, 2012
Rt 3A near the 99 at Bob's store plaza in Billerica totally dead on Verizon...that's where I hide around 3:30pm! lol