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Originally Posted by steven
Honestly I suck at phones in English, so I didn't know there was such a thing as a spam filter on them. I've learned something new haha. I'll try to fix mine tonight because since a couple weeks ago spam has been coming at like 12AM and it's starting to get on my nerves. I get anywhere from 1-5 spam messages a day!
I think Docomo is more widely covered, like you said... but around here AU seems to have the advantage (it's pretty inaka around here). My phone gets reception in the gnarliest mountain roads I've ever seen. Then again, when docomo gets a signal it's stronger than AU's (which seems to be at a constant 2 bars around here).
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I`m sure AU has it`s areas of coverage where Docomo is lacking. Docomo just seems to be the most consistent over the entire country. Back 8 years ago, the ONLY phone you could use at all along the northern coast was Docomo. And even then it was stand on the roof and aim the antenna in a certain direction.
KDDI then took the incentive and saw a chance to take over the market up there so installed a bunch of antennas and bragged about having better coverage and offered discounts to customers in prefectures along the sea of Japan from Shimane to Niigata. This is probably the reason you have coverage in the mountains around you - you`re in Toyama, right?
Unfortunately, it was sort of one big installation and they don`t upgrade that much. Some areas that were part of their big campaign back then have actually lost service when the antenna reached the end of it`s life because there was so little use that it wasn`t worth the money to replace it.
Docomo installed their antennas in large numbers around "centers of population" - sometimes on the top of the only house in the area. This means better and more reliable reception in general where people are, but the occasional patch of out of range when you`re in the mountains.
Docomo replaces their antenna and extends their areas all the time - they have the resources to do so as they are part of NTT, which is partially owned by the government.
I know way too much about cell phones and Hokuriku coverage.