Sam,<div><br></div><div>Thats a good question. And you are not the first to experiences poor or lack of services in similar circumstances. Would this then mean that our CellCo providers are unable to anticipate this kind of scenarios? every year there will be a graduation and every year there will be more cell phone users. Are the transmitter base stations in these trouble spots not able to perform Cell Breathing which is meant to provide a form of Load balancing when one or more base stations experience high traffic? Maybe it&#39;s high  time our major providers introduces the  PPT (Push to Talk) service on your phone it will at least free up some of the frequency available since your traditional hand set will consume some frequency for &quot;listening&quot; and for transition whereas in a PPT scenario you only use frequency while actually transmitting or receiving, effectively making your phone a two way radio.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>SammyG<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Sam Aguyo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:saguyo@yahoo.com">saguyo@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><br></div> Dear Listeners,<br><br>On the 18 September, 2009 University of Nairobi held its graduation where quite a number of people turned up.  However, i noted that no calls could be made from or to the venue.  I disparately called a 0721... 0720... from my 0722... number between around 10AM to 2:00PM thereabouts with little success.  <br>
<br>My wonder is, was this deliberate courtesy of University of Nairobi, does it mean that the service providers run into problems when a huge number of subscribers gather at a central point or what could course this.  It is important to get an explanation for good planning in future since telephony has become part of our lives.<br>
<br>Regards,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Sam<br></font></div><div class="hm"><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of
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