Two cats suffered sudden heart attacks upon moving to this home, due to area cell phone masts. All pets developed chronic disease upon the increase in the number of cell phone towers in this neighborhood. I urge Kutztown residents who are ill to google the Bioinitiative Report. These signals are lethal to life.

T-Mobile at Kutztown is very much "line of sight." There is a strong signal at this intersection right near the Kutztown University Straton Administration building's front lawn, looking straight at the local pizza place "Sal's." Walk to the north facing the poconos [in this same area] and you will have four to five bars including areas in the Kutztown Fairgrounds, and Kutztown University parking lots. On the University campus itself, things are bit odd. For example, if you walk into the parking lot in front of the Student Union Building, you will have "five bars." Walk towards the bookstore, and into the building at the bookstore entrance. Walk up the stairs. You will lose signal. Go towards the coffee shop on the other end of the building, facing the poconos, and you will have signal. Exit the building, enter the library. You'll lose reception on the first floor with the exception of the FAR right and left sides of the building [such as the side with the computers facing the newly built Academic forum]. Go upstairs in the library. Go by a window. You will get good reception. Exit the library, go into the Academic forum. You will get one bar on the first floor. You should be able to make and hold onto calls in here, but don't depend on it. Second floor not tested ; most likely second floor windows are better due to the line of sight propigation. Residence halls: -The older residence halls that have windows facing KUTZTOWN MAIN STREET, but NOT Fleetwood will generally get reception. -Outdoors on the DMZ you are wonderful. -At the South Dining Hall, you may have 4-5 bars outsside. Inside, it will stay useable but don't try to order food down there or you'll drop. -Upstairs is good. -At University place, you will hold onto a useable signal in the courtyard. Generally, if you have a window facing OUT of the building [and not the courtyard due to the way this building is made up] - thanks to AMR full rate's superior error correction, you will be able to make and receive calls. In the central building - The Annex, don't bother on the first floor. Second floor should work in the rooms. Third floor should work. -There are many dead spots in buildings but to be fair, these buildings were built during the cold war. -Coverage OUTSIDE Kutztown is exeptionally bad. If you need to make call, stop the car, get out, and hold the phone to your ear. Move around if you wish, just don't drive off. -You may lose coverage between Kutztown and Reading on I-78 or 222. -You WILL lose coverage - off and on, zero to two bars basically - while driving past Kutztown University's Straton Administration building, down main street, then out of the town past the fire company. Coverage will be strong until you exit the general limits of the town, then you will get weak signal all the way into Leesport, where it gets a bit better. [Here, we mean driving through fleetwood to give a general idea.] Final note: T-Mobile does not use AMR Half-Rate at Kutztown. Calls are crisp and clear where there is service. Digital farts are common on Samsung phones with one bar.

Reception is NOT the same as call quality. Here we have a Cingular / ATT site on the campus water tower. However, only one site serves an entire campus and town - more or less. This leads to AMR Half-rate being used at all times, even at 3:00am. I have tested this myself. I cannot get an FR call. This is why people will start to complain if their phone has anything less than three bars, because calls w--l s--nd *air wooshing effect* l--k this. That being said: -RECEPTION, I REPEAT, RECEPTION - is generally excellent. But reception does NOT equal call quality, and even with five bars on one's phone - certain models will consistently garble calls on occasion while sitting 2,000 yards from the mobile site. [read: Samsung d407. I smashed mine unintentionally through accadent, but I am in the end glad I don't have to use it anymore] [The KU SUB's coffee shop, as a reference.] -The Nokia 3595 does fairly well in AMR-HR, but obviously garble still occurs occasionally. When I put the phone into Enhanced Full Rate mode, my calls are what GSM should sound like. Not what Cingular makes GSM sound like in many markets. However, AMR-HR to AMR-HR calls sound just plain bad. -Phone calls usually do go through, even when my phone in in EFR. This is ironic, considering that Cingular felt that the tower needed AMR-HR at all times. This is an area that would benefit from AMR full-rate, and telling people to quite frankly "deal with it" with occasional network busy messagess. Once in a while, I get these when in EFR, but not ever day even. -Reception inside the residence halls, like all carriers, is very spotty. The buildings were built from the early to mid 1960s and 70s, and were designed to last half a century or more. However, AMR-HR makes calls of poor quality even with two or more bars inside these buildings. Finally, T-Mobile gets better call quality on campus with one bar [outdoors] than Cingular with five. This is because T-Mobile has weaker coverage, and only uses AMR full rate.