Yes, since the strength of the signal the phone transmits is determined by how well the tower receives it, and if the phone is receiving a weak signal, the tower is too.
If the signal is weak enough that the phone loses the tower, that imposes additional drain, since the phone starts hunting for a signal and that takes a ot of power.
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