[SEL] OT ! Portland cell service

[John Culp]

> near as I can tell, cell phones need towers to work and Portland is 
> not well
> blessed, verizon will work, I had no luck with cenntial.  Since I 
> drive all
> over the US, I dug into this, truckers are broke into main groups, 
> verizon
> and ATT, I went to verizon, Utah is dead, but other than that, just 
> small
> pockets that I have found to be dead ..

They're dead around my shooting range, about the worst place for a dead 
spot for me. It picks up just enough to show that it's roaming out of 
the normal service area, but won't connect.

John Culp
Bristol, Tennessee, USA