West Boca’s two major community organizations will have their regular monthly meetings this coming Tuesday, the 11th.
The Chamber breakfast will feature Jack Bornstein telling “first hand stories about his experiences being a Jewish soldier, hand to hand combat, and the relationships he had ….” Attendees are asked to “bring individually wrapped mixed nuts or individually wrapped gifts for The Forgotten Soldier Outreach program.”
As usual the event is slated for Boca Greens Country Club at 7:30 am and it’s $20 to attend. It might be $25 at the door. Register in advance via the West Boca Chamber website.
The West Boca Community Council will meet at their usual Boca Lago Country Club at 7:30 pm. The agenda includes discussion of services including MorseLife (senior living), United Way’s 211, and the Red Cap car service. There’s no mention of the event on their website, but it is posted on the West Boca CC Facebook page.
Category: Services
Spanish River Students in Film Showcase
Julie Bergman’s “Bright Eyes” is a finalist in the Feature/Short category for high school films. Her grandfather, Al Goodman, stars.
Chandler Kravitz helped make that short and wrote a great explanation of everything they went through: Making Bright Eyes.
Kravitz himself is a finalist for a Burt Reynolds scholarship. We think this is the demo reel he submitted.
Here’s Kravitz (on the right, we think) with Reynolds and three other students.
There will be a red carpet pre-event starting at 9:30 am on the 14th, followed by the awards show at 10:30. This will all take place at Lynn in the Johnson Performing Arts Center. Supporting institutions include the Palm Beach County Film and Television Commission and the Palm Beach International Film Festival, which takes place in early April in four venues from the Frank Theatres in Delray Marketplace up to Palm Beach Gardens.
West Boca Cell Phone Survey: Results
Verizon and T-Mobile have the best cell phone coverage in West Boca, according to our survey this week. You can also see this by looking at a cellular coverage map for the different providers. Our results are based on a limited amount of responses but we hope it will be helpful to our readers. Detailed results follow.
A total of eighty-seven respondents answered four question, indicating their home zip code, their cell phone carrier, and their rating for voice coverage and cell coverage in their home. Nearly half of the responses were from the 33428 zip code and another 20% from 33498. Coverage options were weak (scored as 1), so-so (2), pretty good (3), very good (4), and excellent (5).
For the whole of West Boca, we received thirty-six responses from AT&T users, twenty-six from Verizon, fourteen Sprint and eight T-Mobile. There were also two responses from MetroPCS and one from Aio.
T-Mobile users gave their service the highest overall rating, with an average of 4.125 for voice coverage and 4.25 for data. This barely edged out Verizon (4.12 and 4.19), but we’re calling it a tie since the survey had three times as many Verizon users. AT&T was reasonably close in third place (3.92 and 3.94) while Sprint trailed farther back (3.14 and 3.07). The two MetroPCS users rated their service as 4 and the Aio user rated that service as a 5.
Looking at specific zip codes, AT&T has the best rated voice coverage (3.77) in 33428, just ahead of Verizon (3.69). The two tied with a 3.85 for data coverage. T-Mobile was third (3.25, 3.5 – 4 responses) and Sprint was fourth (3, 2.875, 8 responses).
In zip code 33498, Verizon was the clear winner (4.625, 4.75, 8 responses) over AT&T (3.91, 3.73, 11 responses). T-Mobile and Sprint had only one response each in 33498 with T-Mobile rated excellent and Sprint rated so-so.
We did not have enough data to rate the carriers in the remaining individual zip codes (33496, 33433 and 33434). Together in those three zips T-Mobile had the best coverage, but that was with only three users. Verizon (5 users) had slightly better voice coverage than AT&T (12 users) while AT&T had slightly better data coverage.
Comparing zip codes, 33496 appears to have the best overall coverage (4.5, 4.4) and 33428 has the worst. The best combination of zip codes and carriers appears to be Verizon in zip code 33498.
Of course this survey was unscientific and vulnerable to potential manipulation. We removed one response that was submitted right after an identical response from the same IP address.
Cell Phone Survey – Mobile Size
We should have thought of this. So far it looks like all our survey answers have come from desktop computers and tablets. That’s because we made the original survey too wide.
Here it is in mobile format.
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Cell Phone Survey for West Boca
Do you use a cell phone in West Boca? Let’s see if we can find out which company has the best coverage. Please fill out this short survey (four questions) and we’ll report the results.
This is the first time we’ve done a survey. Maybe it’ll work. Maybe not. Let us know what you think in the comments below or on our West Boca News Facebook page.
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