Cellular Phone Service in the State College Region

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Cellular Phone Service in the State College Region

• Jeff Hermann
• Anthony Calamito
• Rich Mazzeo

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Introduction

• Interested in signal strength, cell tower
  locations and their service areas.
• Answer questions about cellular service
• Inverse Distance Weighting and Proximity Polygons
  are the two interpolation methods used.

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Research Questions and Hypothesis

• What signal strength is like at certain
  locations?
• Where are the towers currently located, and why?
• Where would be a good place for additional
  cellular towers to be located?
• Would placing a cellular tower in a particular
  location benefit cellular customers by increasing
  cellular strength?
• Hypothesis certain areas do lack good cellular
  service, due to physical geographic and
  socio-economic factors such as large mountains or
  urban fabric

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Methodology

• Tools used
• Data Collection
• Inverse Distance Weighting
• Proximity Polygons

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Conclusions

• Cellular service on campus is very strong
• Station 40 small service area
• Two weak signal areas
• Branch Road
• Behind Research Park
• Placement of additional cellular towers