Jul, 28 2022 | PC Mag
Driving 10,000 miles to find America’s best mobile network, we hit some pretty bad dead zones—and they weren’t all in the countryside.
Cellular coverage in the US is much better than it used to be, and the Samsung Galaxy S22+ is really good at capturing signal. But there are still locations that are black spots for all three major carriers, usually because of some combination of terrain and restrictions on where they can build their towers.
We saw dropped calls and failures nationwide. Not a lot of them, but enough to annoy you. In general, about 1% of our calls and about 7% of our data sessions were dropped, blocked, or timed out. Drops happened in every city we tested, especially with big data downloads. You know that feeling when you’re looking at a web page on your phone, you get stalled and have to hit reload, and then it loads? That’s probably a blocked data connection.
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