Unless there's multiple events going on, I'm not sure the density of phones is going to be higher downtown than any other part of the city.

I'd just recommend anyone noticing it to call their cell provider, report it. Mentioned someone else had the same issue in the same area. Be specific about what is and isn't working. Is it just mobile data working or are phone calls and text messages not working too? Does the phone show signal and just not work? And definitely include that it did work up until whenever.

Also, if there's a T-Mobile store in the mall, go there. The employees aren't remotely the people who'd be able to fix anything but odds are they'd noticed the same thing and might be able to clue you in.

You realize there are plenty of tunnels that go under the ocean/bay right?

A subway is just an underground railroad. there are no requirements on the technology to how many stops per mile you have. Subways can also go straighter then above ground routes.

Whenever this happens restarting my phone seems to fix the problem

Yes, lots of issues, Verizon.

I have apple

Now you've posted in here. Terrible strategy for avoiding a sub you have no desire to participate in

Take the train. I drove to Quincy/North Quincy for 21 years and it SUCKED.

I have friends who commute via Amtrak - you can get tickets on Amtrak cheaper than on MBTA if you plan ahead. And it's a much nicer ride. But MBTA is not bad.

Adding another t-mobile vote to the pile.

However I’m down in Westerly & didn’t notice my service drop at all, but one of my contacts complained they weren’t receiving my texts for a few hours.

1st: obligatory 'username checks out' 2nd, While likely not correct yours is the best answer.

Unfortunately no, it's a sealed system. The combustion air does not mix with the heating/ cooling air. But I like the way you think.

That was my thought as well, it’s just bizarre that it just started happening a few weeks back. Maybe Verizon and t mobile made the brilliant idea to share towers and totally neglected the bandwidth factor and didn’t care that they’d wipe out cell service for a decent sized city? That’s my guess.

It’s different. All of downtown is a total dead zone until you reach a certain border of the city. This is new and people on Verizon are having the same issue

In general, yes they totally suck, I used to travel for a living and they are terrible…. This is something new and different. I get full signal, but nothing loads. It’s different than losing signal in the boonies of CT.

Yeah exactly, wondering same thing. I figure trekking down to Newport would be more hassle than it's worth.

I get the same experience on Cricket (ATT), office is near city hall. Turning off 5G seems to help

I’ve heard T Mobil and Verizon share some towers. So it makes sense both of those services would be affected the same. I’ve got ATT. Don’t recommend them as a company tbh but I don’t have any issues and I work at the mall

Ah, I really love all the comedy but this makes sense. They aren't just at city hall they're all over. You can hear the equipment running and using as intake makes sense to what sound it's making.

I suppose it may be a place the joker and his henchmen could dump knockout gas to clear a building?

T Mobile has been having issues for a while. And I live quite a ways from Providence.

I have the same issue and it started a month or more. I thought it was my phone because my partner also has TMobile but doesn't have the issue. Android only perhaps? Partner has Apple

Morlock dinner bell?

They currently have a studio listed at $1700 on trulia. It's not as bad as I remember it being but it is definitely out of line with the neighborhood.

I have built and installed these in Providence. The building it is next to has a gas fired boiler or other heating equipment in the sub basement. These boilers require both intake air for the gas combustion and an exhaust. The exhaust is hot and rises. It comes out the very top where the vent is narrower. The intake air goes in lower where the vent widens. It is essentially an exhaust pipe running in the middle of a larger intake pipe.

All wrong answers. This is a vent for the blower to an underground electrical vault.

and you know that the commuter rail and subway operate differently right?

https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2022-12/2022-12-12-subway-map-v37f.pdf

between north station and Malden center there are two commuter rail stops, 6 orange line stops. between south station and brain tree there are 4 commuter rail stops, and 9 red line stops. subways are for shorter distances and have more stops. the commuter rail has 13 stops from providence to south station. a subway would at the minimum have 26 stops, but probably more. with just 26 stops and waiting for a quick 2 minutes per stop that's already almost and hour of waiting without travel time. a subway isn't a good form of transportation over that large a distance.

As long as there are fire engines and lots of bagpipes and drums is a good st paddy’s day parade if it’s lacking it just ain’t right. How is it in this department