Pegleg wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:30:19 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The issue here is that Verizon has eliminated a lot of off-network
>> roaming with America's Choice II that existed in the original America's
>> Choice plan,
>
> If you kept your original AC plan it is still there.

I have kept it, for that specific reason.

> It was done
> because people were not paying attention to when they were roaming and
> then screamed when they saw their bill.

Yes, this is true. Too bad they couldn't come up with some other method
of managing this. You know when you go to an ATM and it informs you
about a fee for non-customers, and you have to press a button to agree
to the fee? Since Verizon can get whatever firmware they want into a
handset, maybe they could have had an option to enable off-network
roaming, with approval for off-network calls, both for outgoing and
incoming.

Or maybe they could have required that subscribers call them to enable
off-network roaming, just like you have to call to enable international
roaming, with the express agreement that you pay for the off-network
roaming calls.

Part of the problem is that the roaming indicator was back-asswards. It
would flash for on-network, and be steady for off-network. This was
counter-intuitive to anyone that actually paid attention to the roaming
indicator.