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Default Mobile signal improving over time

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Do mobile phone cells maybe self adjust their radiation pattern, to
accomdate phones which have a weak signal?


Don't know if they do it to accommodate individual phones, but they
(just 3G ones?) use something called "cell-breathing" where overloaded
cells reduce their coverage so that neighbouring cells can expand to
pick up some of the demand.