This would be pretty useful. Currently I live in the basement of my parents house and signal is okay. Depending on which tower Im connected to, 1 of them I would constally lose singal and texts take forever to send. The other, works just fine.
Conceptually it is a great idea. On execution, it would lead to a lot of complaints. Coverage can be finicky where moving around a few meters on a certain direction can mean major changes in signal strength. I can't see any carrier taking risks of being called a liar.
@Luddite is that a mock-up, or did you take that image from another provider? I'm just curious because I don't recall seeing anyone else offer this up. I think I agree that this would be difficult to implement and would be prone to a lot of error, unfortunately.
@canucks4life well, theoretically. But LTE coverage is more complicated than UMTS coverage. There are multiple LTE bands with 4 (AWS) being the "primary" band, but also coverage in some areas on bands 2, 5, 7, 12, 17, 30, and possibly a couple of others. @Luddite this is part of why this would be so complicated to implement accurately. For example, in a single postal code, there could be a lot of variability. Let's say you're in a dense downtown core. You could have a lot of different bands overlaid in order offer in-building penetration as well as outdoor unobstrcuted faster speeds, etc. Depending on your phone you may have access to some or all of these. And I'm not 100% sure how big geographically most postal codes are, but I think this would be really hard to provide. [Edit: @jpar already mentioned the geography challenge]
