This weekend I attended New York Comic Con at the Javits Center. I've been to that convention center many times, and I know it's pretty notorious for terrible cell service inside the building. The basement is especially bad. I attended an hour-long panel down there this year and even after I went upstairs to the ground floor I still didn't get reception back. I went outside to 11th Avenue (as in on the street, under the open sky, as open as NYC can get, anyway) and still nothing. It took two hours to get a signal again, and by then I had missed a few important calls/texts.
This happened to me a few years back when I had a different phone, and I originally thought it was just the phone but now I know there's something else at work. After waiting a while, I tried turning the phone on and off again, I even pulled the battery out, but nothing. It wouldn't place outgoing calls or send texts.
Does anyone know what causes this delay in reacquiring service? Is there any way to speed it along?
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After loss of signal, how can I get cell phone service back faster?
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The only way I can think of is getting out of that immediate area which the cell tower covers.
I remember a similar issue when I made my first trip to PAX East in Boston. For me service is absolutely awful, and it took a very long time do service to be re-established. I'd say almost two hours after leaving the expo.
On the second night I took a cab out of the city minutes after leaving the expo. Not twenty
minutes after leaving was service restored for me.
I remember a similar issue when I made my first trip to PAX East in Boston. For me service is absolutely awful, and it took a very long time do service to be re-established. I'd say almost two hours after leaving the expo.
On the second night I took a cab out of the city minutes after leaving the expo. Not twenty
minutes after leaving was service restored for me.
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Possible that cell service in that area was just oversaturated?
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