My Biggest Complaint About Roaming When I’m Not Roaming

I know when I’m roaming and I know when I’m not roaming. My cellphone is the one with the problem.

I am in and out of government buildings during the day. I can have great network service in the hallway and walk into an office or other room and suddenly, as if the door were a portal to some magic place like Narnia, I’m roaming. I went 2 feet, but I’m roaming.

This happens to me constantly during the day, especially in one particular building. It’s like the building is the Bermuda Triangle of cell phones. My phone loses all bearing and direction for no apparent reason other than the fact that I stepped into a different room. Most of the time the room is an interior room without windows but I’m no more than 30 feet at any time from the hallway that was just fine a few seconds ago.

My biggest complaint about roaming when I’m not roaming is that I feel like it’s an expensive default for the cell company, in my case Sprint. It’s like they have it set up so that if I have a weak signal, my phone flips over to roaming. I guess I should say, sometimes it flips over to roaming, other times it works just fine. I feel like the phone company is using a weak signal to make a little extra cash.

You would think walking back into the hallway from the cell phone Narnia would fix the problem. Back in the hallway? Should work. Hardly ever. Most of the time, once my phone starts roaming when I’m not, the phone won’t flip back over to the regular network without a soft reset.