"Mij Adyaw" <mij@SpamBucket.com> wrote in message news:...
> SMS,
>
> You seem to need some education in this area: (Listen carefully and
> learn):
>
> I live in Laguna Niguel in Southern California and had been a Verizon
> customer for about 10 years back to the days when it was Airtouch
> Cellular. I moved to a new area of Laguna Niguel where Verizon did not
> have coverage. They sent a technician to my home and about a week later
> they had a report that the signal was not usable at my home and that there
> would be no new cell sites installed to cover that area in the near
> future. Cingular and T-Mobile also do not function in my area since it is
> surrounded by hills. Sprint happens to have a cell on a building about 1/2
> mile down the street and I get full signal here. Verizon cancelled my
> contract due to lack of ability to provide coverage and I switched to
> Sprint. I have been with Sprint for the past several years and have been
> very satisfied with coverage in SoCal and throughout my travels within the
> US. BTW, Sprint will roam on Verizon in Southern California. I can fore
> roaming now and I will have a Verizon SID. The opposite is not true for
> Verizon. Verizon cannot roam on Sprint in SoCal as Verizon removed this
> option about three years ago. If you cannot get a Verizon signal in SoCal
> then you are out-of-luck because there is no other CDMA roaming partner to
> roam on, even if Sprint has a usable signal, it is not possible to use it.
>
> You can thank me later, but if you need anymore remedial education, please
> let me know. :-)
>
> -mij
>
>
> "SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
> news:45b3e5d0$0$68957$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>> Mij Adyaw wrote:
>>> With all of the CDMA roaming agreements that Sprint has, they have much
>>> better voice and data coverage.
>>
>> The problem with Sprint is that they don't allow roaming onto the Verizon
>> network if they have their own network for that area, even if their own
>> coverage is poor. This is the situation in California. There are many
>> areas where the native Sprint coverage is very poor, mainly due to their
>> late entry, fewer towers, and 1900 MHz spectrum. They even let my last
>> boss out of his contract with no termination fee when their service
>> didn't work at his home in Fremont. Another colleague of mine had Sprint
>> for years with no service at her house in Cupertino, she only switched to
>> another carrier when she actually wanted coverage at her house, in order
>> to have mobile to mobile free calls with her kids that went off to
>> college.
>>
>> It's ironic that the best Sprint coverage is where they have no network
>> at all, so you can roam onto Verizon.
>>
>> Now Sprint has done away with its "Fair and Flexible" pricing plans,
>> eliminating another reason to choose them. They are hemorrhaging
>> customers like AT&T Wireless was doing prior to their meltdown and
>> takeover.
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