Dave is right Larry....

The FCC has nothing to do with roaming.
Their only jurisdiction is with a license holder, in the area they hold the license.

Roaming is a completely different thing, consisting of intercarrier agreements.
Absolutely no FCC involvement whatsoever.

"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message news:Xns98E67B8A468Enoonehomecom@208.49.80.253...
> Diamond Dave <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:n7bdu2lpj2j7mmd6cqgcf78que5ofilrff@4ax.com:
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>> Nothing to do with the FCC. Its a business practice. VZW does the same
>> thing.
>>
>> Dave
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> FCC is tasked with providing the public with rules and regulations on its
> public carriers, including Verizon Wireless, that use the public's
> airwaves and sell to the public services on those airwaves. This has
> everything to do with the FCC, providing the public with an enforced
> level of service over the area the FCC has licensed the carriers (or
> their bogus network companies, it matters not) to provide. FCC regulates
> the signal, regulates to minimize interference and is supposed to protect
> the public it is supposed to serve against being ripped off.
>
> IF the FCC did its job, it would matter not what Verizon's "business
> practices" were. Unfortunately, I don't think the FCC has done its job
> since the lawyers took over the FCC away from those staunch engineers
> that provided great service to the public on their airwaves. The FCC now
> acts like a park service that's auctioning off the forest it has been
> tasked with protecting to the logging companies for money....the only
> thing lawyers understand. We do still control the licensing of cellular
> providers and can FORCE, if necessary, them to provide a decent level of
> service to more than just the highest profit areas in the big cities.
>
> Larry
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