#255 - Valmont: The Silent Signal Killer, Finding & Fixing PIM

About this episode

Drew Martin discusses the challenges of detecting and mitigating passive intermodulation interference (PIM) at cell sites.

Any kind of RF interference at a call site will diminish connections to cell phones and cause poor service which leads to customer complaints. Unlike active interference from nearby antennas, PIM, or passive intermodulation interference, can be caused by many elements in and around a cell site on a tower. These conditions make PIM hard to detect and mitigate. Drew Martin, Sales Engineer-Interference with Valmont Telecom speaks with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Edi...

People in this episode

Guest: Drew Martin

Topics covered

• RF interference
• cell phone service
• passive intermodulation interference
• telecom technology
• customer complaints

Keywords

• RF interference
• PIM
• cell sites
• telecom
• customer service
• intermodulation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Valmont Telecom

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