T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint are all cellular servers that don’t get good coverage on ULM’s campus, according to students.
With that understanding, many of those students rarely get to experience the full potential of their mobile phone service provider because of “dead zones.”
According to results from a recent study, Verizon has the best coverage nation-wide. AT&T is second, followed by Sprint and T-Mobile. Verizon also added the most new contract customers in the last quarter of 2010 year.
With the addition of the iPhone 4 for customers, Verizon is predicted to be the top grossed cell phone company of 2011, experts say.
Many students said throughout the campus they experience numerous dropped calls, or may never receive calls at all. On top of that, text messages aren’t delivered or received in a timely manner.
Students are getting frustrated and eventually began to question their service.
Jacob Broussard, a freshman pre-pharmacy major from Delcambre, thinks there isn’t a spot on campus where the service is great.
“The SGA office, CNSB, library, and Masur are where you can find unlimited horrible service,” said Broussard.
“The reason I think reception is so bad is because these places are limited due to the amount of people using the same provider in that building alone” said Broussard.
Michael McDonald, a freshman business management major from Gonzales, also an AT&T customer, believes that maybe the reason for bad service is because of metal on the buildings.
“I think that the buildings have too much metal on them and it causes the cell phones not to catch good service,” said McDonald.
“It’s a discouraging thing that I have to pay $80 a month for my cell phone, when I cant even use my 3g like I want to. When my contract is up, I’m switching to Verizon so that I can get my money’s worth,” said McDonald.
