And the purpose of your post is?

"Mij Adyaw" <mij@SpamBucket.com> wrote in message
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> "Mij Adyaw" <mij@SpamBucket.com> wrote in message news:...
>> SMS,
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>> You seem to need some education in this area: (Listen carefully and
>> learn):
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>> 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
>>
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>> "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.
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>>> 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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