Me and NSR, Re: Verizon's Coverage Loss

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:27:01 GMT, Stanley Cline <sc1-news@roamer1.org>
wrote:

>VZW can have my NSR plan when they pry my 9500 (or whatever phone I
>have at the time, and such phone WILL have analog) from my cold, dead
>hands...

Now I wish I hadn't said that.

I've actually been considering getting rid of Nextel, largely because
of a desire for a T-Mobile Sidekick (the main reason I have Nextel
is because of their unlimited WAP, *NOT* DC/PTT -- the Sidekick, uh,
kicks butt compared to anything WAP), and switching my VZW plan from
NSR to AC to make up for the "loss" of Nextel.

Also, it's actually quite rare lately that I travel to areas not
covered by AC. Given that 99% of the places I go are covered by
either VZW itself or ALLTEL, I don't have a major practical concern
about the "fluctuating coverage" issues (most of my concern is based
on principle), and since there's no CDMA in most of the problem areas
anyway -- mainly 2/3 of KY and parts of AL and MS -- but there *is*
TDMA, using CallPlus prepaid for the rare forays into those areas
really makes more sense than keeping NSR; I can always just forward
calls from VZW to CP in places where AC roams.

-SC
--
Stanley Cline -- sc1 at roamer1 dot org -- http://www.roamer1.org/
....
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might
be a law against it by that time." -/usr/games/fortune

In article <ei1hmv4moqk46771k61vr5liunm9mhv7k6@4ax.com>, Stanley Cline wrote:

> I've actually been considering getting rid of Nextel, largely because
> of a desire for a T-Mobile Sidekick (the main reason I have Nextel
> is because of their unlimited WAP, *NOT* DC/PTT -- the Sidekick, uh,
> kicks butt compared to anything WAP), and switching my VZW plan from
> NSR to AC to make up for the "loss" of Nextel.

Done deal -- got Sidekick, got CallPlus again, dumped Nextel (actually
just put the phone up -- I won't drop the account until the contract runs
out in a month or two), and changed plans with VZW, from NSR to AC (as of
Saturday when I start a new billing cycle.)

-SC
--
Stanley Cline -- sc1 at roamer1 dot org -- http://www.roamer1.org/
....
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might
be a law against it by that time." -/usr/games/fortune