BG96 Registration Question

IoT Modules LPWA Module
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I have a piece of portable equipment that is using a BG96 module. The device is placed at ground level to record events and those events are uploaded via the modem.

The BG96 is very good at retaining its connected cell tower - perhaps too good as I can sometimes see towers 14km away with very poor RSSI of -86 sometimes. This is causing my uploads (performed with HTTPS/POST) to fail.

Is there a way other than manually unregistering and reregistering to encourage the device to switch to closer cell towers more often than it does by default? Can this algorithm be tweaked with an AT command?

Thanks

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In automatic mode, UE searches according to this PLMN priority.
RPLMN>EHPLMN>HPLMN>UPLMN>OPLMN>High Quality PLMN>Low Quality PLMN
Maybe the cell tower which 14km away is the best source of signal,you can change place and try to register again.