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
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> 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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