Based on the data, Cincinnati, Ohio is the city with the most dead zone complaints with 534 made per one million people. The 45255 ZIP Code, which covers Cincinnati, has the largest number of dead cell zones in the country with 6570 reports per million people. Hawaii is the state with the most complaints per million people (282) followed by Maine (264) and Vermont (252).
Cellular dead zone complaints for each state per one million residents. | Image credit-Holafly
“A number of Hawaiian families who go back 10 generations live out here. The ocean is their refrigerator, the coral is their garden and they take care of it. They’re very aligned with the land and the sea and they want to protect it. They don’t necessarily want it modernized. So to put in a tower that is 100 feet higher than any other building out here is just absurd.”-Terri Tico, local lawyer
U.S. cities with the most cellular dead zone complaints per one million residents. | Image credit-Holafly
We gave you the worst city (Cincinnati) and state (Hawaii) for cellular service in the U.S. last year, so it is only fair that we tell you the state with the fewest number of dead zone complaints per million residents. That would be South Dakota which had only 41 complaints per million residents made to DeadCellZones.com.
Among the top 20 cities with the most complaints, seven are in California and five are in Colorado. The worst zip code in California for cell signal dead zones is El Segundo 90245 which had 1,158 complaints per million people. Half Moon Bay, zip code 94019, was next in the state with 969 complaints per million residents.
The local planning commission in Half Moon Bay announced a plan to replace a 50-foot AT&T cell tower with a 75-foot cell tower at a nearby high school. The new tower would be built “farther away from residential and high-use student areas.” Hopefully, this will reduce the number of complaints about dead zones in the area.
