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DRNewcomb · 24-05-2009, 23:42

I've picked up Petrocom on occasion but never roamed on them. Neither Cellular South nor T-Mobile roam Petrocom. ATT does. Petrocom converted to GSM. There is or was another smaller company in the same business using CDMA. Anyone who picks up a Petrocom signal in Biloxi has a right to scream bloody murder. Some years ago one of the offshore carriers made GTE reengineer their coverage on the Alabama Gulf Coast. Seems that GTE's license stopped and the offshore licenses started at "the baseline", which is the low tide line along the Gulf shoreline. In Alabama their are streets and houses right there. The offshore carrier told GTE they had to drop their signal level at the waterline below X by a certain date and if they didn't know how the offshore company could send engineers to show them how. Seems they wanted the roaming revenue from all the boaters and fishermen.

Well, that was Alabama, in Mississippi the baseline is about 10 miles south of Biloxi at the outer edge of Ship and Horn Islands. If anyone can pick up Petrocom in Biloxi without using a Yagi, they need to fix their system.

Now you can go a long way out in the Gulf and still have coverage. Here's thier coverage map.

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DRNewcomb (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,465 Join Date: 27 Feb 2004 Location: Mississippi, USA Country:	24-05-2009, 23:42 I've picked up Petrocom on occasion but never roamed on them. Neither Cellular South nor T-Mobile roam Petrocom. ATT does. Petrocom converted to GSM. There is or was another smaller company in the same business using CDMA. Anyone who picks up a Petrocom signal in Biloxi has a right to scream bloody murder. Some years ago one of the offshore carriers made GTE reengineer their coverage on the Alabama Gulf Coast. Seems that GTE's license stopped and the offshore licenses started at "the baseline", which is the low tide line along the Gulf shoreline. In Alabama their are streets and houses right there. The offshore carrier told GTE they had to drop their signal level at the waterline below X by a certain date and if they didn't know how the offshore company could send engineers to show them how. Seems they wanted the roaming revenue from all the boaters and fishermen. Well, that was Alabama, in Mississippi the baseline is about 10 miles south of Biloxi at the outer edge of Ship and Horn Islands. If anyone can pick up Petrocom in Biloxi without using a Yagi, they need to fix their system. Now you can go a long way out in the Gulf and still have coverage. Here's thier coverage map.