It's so frustrating — your phone shows full bars of signal strength but it can't upload photos to Instagram or play Netflix or TikTok, let alone send emails or jump into a video conference.
Despite a dense network of mobile signal providers in metro areas, you may still experience 'black spots' around the city.
So, getting a signal usually isn't the problem, said associate professor Mark Gregory from RMIT University.That goes for data, video calling and old-fashioned phone calls. If it can't find one because something is blocking the signal, the call cuts out or the dreaded loading wheel appears on a video.Big buildings, particularly those made of concrete, tunnels, dense foliage, and even tinted windows, can all block radio waves from reaching your phone, he said.
Concrete walls, metal buildings, tunnels, and even vegetation can block a signal. Added to this, most base station antennas are designed to point down towards people and vehicles on the ground, not upwards at high rises.This can happen when there's congestion: crowds congregating at a concert, or sporting events, and even along busy streets.
Dr Gregory said access points to the grid "needs to be continually checked and replaced, especially when someone puts up a big building or other obstruction next to it".A spokesperson from Optus said the company used "a combination of network performance data, modelling, customer feedback and crowd-sourced measures as inputs to prioritise mobile network builds".
There's nothing you can do about a congested network, apart from complaining to your telco if there's a persistent problem.And like a computer, it needs to be rebooted from time to time.
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