crowdsourced cellular coverage maps

[richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)]

On Feb 23, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
> Not a lot of data in the system, but it does let you see where the
> towers are for multiple carriers aggregated onto one map. That alone
> might be helpful in deciding which carrier might fare best in an area.

Maybe.  The big carriers have mobile cellular towers amusingly dubbed COWs -- cell on wheels -- which they can move in and out of areas needing extra (sometimes any) coverage.  There is no practical way to distinguish between a COW and a fixed tower so such maps are not entirely reliable.

--Rich P.