Tmobile cell towers coverage

Hello,
Does anyone now what the maximum radius in feet or miles that a cell tower
should cover in a area.
Thank you

In message <Gq-dnZQ4-rn5IBnXnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@earthlink.com> "jon"
<jon@no_more-spam.invalid> was claimed to have wrote:

>Hello,
>Does anyone now what the maximum radius in feet or miles that a cell tower
>should cover in a area.
>Thank you
>

Some technologies, such as GSM, have a fixed maximum range of 40km (25
miles). This requires fairly ideal circumstances, you certainly won't
find powers in urban areas that far apart due to capacity issues.

On 2009-08-14, jon <jon@no_more-spam.invalid> wrote:
> Hello,
> Does anyone now what the maximum radius in feet or miles that a cell tower
> should cover in a area.
> Thank you

There's no standard number for that, it depends strongly on both
the geography of the tower location and the height of the tower
above its surroundings.

In urban and suburban areas towers are often designed (even if not
restricted by height limits) to have quite small coverage areas. They
need a lot of towers where there are a lot of phones for capacity
reasons, and erecting a very high tower can cause interference problems
for adjacent towers they need to build to increase capacity.

Dennis Ferguson

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:50:52 -0700, DevilsPGD <DeathToSpam@crazyhat.net>
wrote in <jks9859fd1diuiufft17bsbft0seuc2k7e@4ax.com>:

>In message <Gq-dnZQ4-rn5IBnXnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@earthlink.com> "jon"
><jon@no_more-spam.invalid> was claimed to have wrote:
>
>>Does anyone now what the maximum radius in feet or miles that a cell tower
>>should cover in a area.

It all depends on the area -- there's no good general rule because
cellular signals are easily blocked by buildings, hills, and other
obstructions -- signals will go much further in flat open terrain than
in urban canyons and hills.

>Some technologies, such as GSM, have a fixed maximum range of 40km (25
>miles).

The standard range of GSM is actually 35 km (21.7 mi), but Extended
Range GSM can work over much longer ranges.

>This requires fairly ideal circumstances,

Especially for typical low power handsets with poor antennas.

--
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John <http:/navasgroup.com>

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