Sentence examples for patchy reception from inspiring English sources

The over-grazing of India's spectrum is already beginning to show in dropped calls and patchy reception.

Remember, you're not as vulnerable to looking stupid as you think: because of noise and patchy reception, asking someone to repeat themselves seems totally natural on the phone.

The calls and SMS still count toward your plan, but it's a good way to extend the reach of the network in areas with patchy reception.

Even the home counties, a stone's throw from London and home to millions of commuters, still suffer from appallingly patchy reception.

Their apartment, they have found, receives patchy cellphone reception.

Mr. Merkley had patchy cellphone reception at the Pendleton Round-Up, a rodeo in eastern Oregon.

The updates on the Kickstarter page are a catalogue of little disasters and triumphs: broken moulds, patchy GPS reception, interminable Chinese holidays and, finally, huge stacks of boxes ready to ship.

Perhaps his reception is patchy.

Satellite phone reception was patchy.

Communications in the Arctic are extremely challenging – cellphone reception is patchy, and there are no roads.

The sound quality is poor - the person called sounds like they are stuck in a dustbin full of duvets - and reception is patchy, though again that may all be O2's fault.