Cell Phone Snafus: Why You Lost That Call

IT’S AN ALL-TOO-FAMILIAR FRUSTRATION: SUDDENLY YOU HEAR that ominous static, followed by a crackle, and then a click. Another cellular phone call lost. Here arc the major trouble spots that plague Southwestern Bell or MetroCel customers, or both. (For token credit, call your cellular carrier.)



Trouble Spots:

●Skillman/Audelia: police substation crowding the airwaves

●Tollway: too many people using their phones

●Downtown Dallas: crowded airwaves, tall buildings

●LBJ/Tollway: concrete overpasses

●Marsh and Northwest Highway: interference from Love Field

●Area bordered by Royal, Midway, Forest, and Inwood: power lines

●Stemmons and Northwest Highway: power lines

●Central Expressway from Lovers to Haskell: underpasses

●Stemmons just north of Regal Row: power lines, Love Field