Cell Signal Survey in Nanaimo BC — $89
The $89 cell signal survey puts real signal readings from your Nanaimo property in your hands — roofline, ground level, inside the building, across all carriers — plus a written recommendation: booster, Starlink, or an honest "don't spend the money." In a city built on ridges, measuring beats guessing every time.
What the $89 survey includes
- On-site signal readings across all carriers — measured at the roofline, at ground level, and inside the building, so we know what's actually there instead of guessing from a coverage map.
- A written report — the readings, what they mean in plain language, and what your options are. Yours to keep whether you hire us for the next step or not.
- An honest recommendation — one of three outcomes: a booster will work here, Starlink is the right answer, or nothing will fix this and here's why. We make money on installs, and we'll still tell you when the answer is "don't spend the money."
Book your install within 30 days of the survey and the $89 comes off the price. The survey is our foot in the door; the honesty is why you'll trust the quote.
Field note — what "all carriers" actually buys you
Measuring every carrier sounds like overkill until it saves you buying hardware. In Nanaimo, the right answer is sometimes "switch carriers" — one side of a ridge sees a different serving site than the other. We measure all of them so the recommendation is the truth, not just the easiest sale.
The signal reality in Nanaimo
Nanaimo sits on the Island's main carrier corridor: of the 2,488 licensed cellular sites on Vancouver Island, Telus holds 2,115, Rogers 250, Bell 18, and other cellular operators 105. A licence doesn't mean there's a tower. The city is generally served along the Highway 19 corridor, but the ridges at Wellington, Harewood, the University District and the Departure Bay slopes carve it into shadow pockets, and the north-end sprawl toward Lantzville pushes into treed lots. The survey exists because coverage maps lie by omission: a map shows the corridor, it doesn't show your side of the hill, your concrete walls, or your metal roof. We measure the property, not the postal code.
Terrain and access
Nanaimo survey work is ridge work: hill-shadowed streets where one side of the road sees a serving site and the other doesn't, acreages in Cedar and Yellow Point where the building and the trees each take their cut, and downtown concrete where the question is whether the strata will even allow an exterior antenna. We walk the property, take readings where the antennas would actually go, and check inside the rooms where you actually use your phone. A survey done from the driveway isn't a survey.
What connectivity looks like around here
The local pattern is street-by-street: hill shadows behind the ridges, concrete and steel downtown, Low-E glass and foil insulation in the north-end new builds, and treed lots on the rural fringe where the canopy eats the margins. Each of those points to a different answer — booster, Starlink, or the honest "nothing" — and guessing wrong costs real money. That's the entire case for measuring first: book the Nanaimo survey.
See the community dead-zone map — reported dead spots and proposed towers across the Island.
Getting work done here
Nanaimo sits well inside our day-trip radius from the Parksville/Qualicum base — roughly 45 minutes south on Highway 19 — so surveys here typically book within days, not weeks. Our residential work (surveys, boosters, Starlink, home batteries) runs on that day-trip radius.
Our commercial and prime-contractor work — tower builds, maintenance, decommissioning, remote power — covers the full confirmed service region: all of Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast BC, the Southern Gulf Islands, Texada Island, and the Campbell River/Discovery Islands region, including boat-access-only west coast sites.
Nanaimo signal survey questions
Do you test all carriers or just mine?
All of them. The survey measures every carrier's signal at your property, because the right answer sometimes involves switching carriers rather than buying hardware. In Nanaimo, where one side of a ridge can see a different serving site than the other, the full picture matters. The written report shows you all of it.
I live in a condo — is the survey still worth it?
Yes, with one caveat: a booster needs an exterior donor antenna, which needs strata or landlord approval. The survey tells you whether the building would even benefit before you start that conversation — real readings, in writing, that you can show the strata council.
What does the written report look like?
Plain language, real numbers: which readings we took, exactly where, what they mean for a booster or Starlink, and what we'd do on your property. No jargon, no upsell — and the report is yours to keep even if you never hire us again.
Is the $89 really credited toward the install?
Yes. Book the install within 30 days of the survey and the $89 comes off the job. Past 30 days the readings can go stale — trees grow, carriers retune — and the credit window is what keeps everyone honest.
What if the answer is “nothing will fix this”?
Then we tell you, in writing, and the report stays yours. It happens — usually on properties with genuinely no usable signal at the roofline and no sky view for satellite either. We'd rather lose an install than sell you one that can't work.
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Your street, your hill, your readings
$89 gets you real readings at your Nanaimo property — roofline, ground, inside — plus the written report and the honest recommendation. Credited toward the install if you book within 30 days.