Research and Working EQ

1. What is your working EQ?

How can you troubleshoot cellular coverage in a city?

2. What is a possible answer to your working EQ?

Typically, when their is a problem in the mobile networks, it is most likely due to a Radio Based Station (RBS) experiencing failure in the software or hardware. An RF Field Engineer receives a ticket or e-mail from the Mobile Telephone Switching Office, which tells the employee what RBS it is and where it's located. 

To troubleshoot the cellular coverage, there are three possible solutions:

• First you need to check if the area has an Radio Based Station to transmit cellular data to cellphones. If there is no RBS in that area then you will have no service, and you won't have internet access or make phone calls. So to fix this problem the carriers need to install an RBS in that area. 
• If there is an RBS but there is still a problem in the network, then you will need to go operate and maintain the equipment and radios in the RBS.
• If all else fails, you will need to work with the performance of the sector, and checking the power antennae to up tilt it or replace the antennae for a better outreach.

3. What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?

My summer mentorship and the mentorship that I am doing with my current mentor has helped me answer my essential question. There I have learned how to troubleshoot the cellular coverage in the best way possible.

4. Who is your mentor, or where are you volunteering, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?

Oscar Holzmeister is my mentor and he is an RF Field Engineer for T-Mobile. We are going to Based Stations and troubleshooting all of them.