Nationwide Roaming

To those of you that travel around the country with Spring PCS Phones, how
would you rate the roaming capability?

Thanks,

-mij

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Mij Adyaw wrote:
> To those of you that travel around the country with Spring PCS Phones, how
> would you rate the roaming capability?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -mij
>
>
>
I'm not sure what locations you go to but you should have sufficient
SprintPCS coverage in major cities. If you go to rural areas, the rare
occassions I had to roam went well.

(If you go to rural areas you want to make sure you have a
dual-band/tri-mode phone for maximum roaming capabilities).

Again, you should have no issues in major cities.

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:50:25 -0800, Mij Adyaw wrote:

> To those of you that travel around the country with Spring PCS Phones, how
> would you rate the roaming capability?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -mij

I am able to pickup native Sprintpcs networks across almost every
interstate, and within major cities. Of the rural areas I visit if they
are within 5-10miles of the interstate I usually can get Sprintpcs native
network and by rural I mean towns with populations under 50 in Arkansas.
Now since I haven't traveled across all interstates I'm sure someone here
knows of some that have dead-spots which is why I said almost every one.
In the rural areas I have had problems with, on my dual band phone, I have
always had analog roaming that worked fine. I have the 5dollar Free and
Clear America roaming option that removes my concerns with the price of
roaming, assuming I use at least 50% of my total usage that month on the
Sprintpcs network. Overall depending on the areas you are going Sprintpcs
has most major areas covered and if they don't usually Verizon or another
analog/roaming cdma carrier does. One benefit I noticed about Sprintpcs
when they rolled out 3g vision/1xRTT over Verizon was that if I got a
Sprintpcs native connection I would have access to 1xRTT services while on
Verizon when they were rolling it out I could only get it in select areas.
Sprintpcs tends to roll things out all at once and not in spurts like
Verizon. If you travel alot in the north east I would suggest you look
carefully into both Verizon and Sprintpcs since there are some places
where Verizon would be the better choice.

Central <[email protected]> wrote:

>I have always had analog roaming that worked fine. I have the 5dollar Free and
>Clear America roaming option that removes my concerns with the price of
>roaming, assuming I use at least 50% of my total usage that month on the
>Sprintpcs network.

Is that 50% usage based on the actual number of minutes you use or on
the number of minutes in your plan? For example if I have a 2000
minute plan and use 999 roaming minutes but only used 500 peak in the
same billing period is that a penalty or what? I've gotten different
answers on this from a Sprint rep and this is an important point for
me since I travel many rural areas in the western half of the country,
especially in western Kansas and Nebraska and eastern Colorado.

My current AT&T national plan works most places but I'm being forced
out of it soon thanks to Cingular in whom I'm not interested in
changing over to so I'm investigating options with Sprint which a
friend has used for a few years. He says with his no roam straight
Sprint plan he has good coverage in the eastern half of the country
but poor coverage in rural areas out west. If I go to Sprint I'd be
using the F&CA add on. Verizon is not available in my state (OK)
although I'm told it may be before the end of the year.

Much of my travel is in rural areas in the western half of Kansas and
Nebraska. If anyone has Sprint

"Manford" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Central <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I have always had analog roaming that worked fine. I have the 5dollar
Free and
> >Clear America roaming option that removes my concerns with the price of
> >roaming, assuming I use at least 50% of my total usage that month on the
> >Sprintpcs network.
>
> Is that 50% usage based on the actual number of minutes you use or on
> the number of minutes in your plan? For example if I have a 2000
> minute plan and use 999 roaming minutes but only used 500 peak in the
> same billing period is that a penalty or what? I've gotten different
> answers on this from a Sprint rep and this is an important point for
> me since I travel many rural areas in the western half of the country,
> especially in western Kansas and Nebraska and eastern Colorado.

50% of the minutes used ... As to your example used above, SPCS has not
applied any additional charges, at least none reported here in this
newsgroup.

Bob

"Bob Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:

>50% of the minutes used ... As to your example used above, SPCS has not
>applied any additional charges, at least none reported here in this
>newsgroup.

Thank you for your speedy and helpful reply.

Manford wrote:
> "Bob Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >50% of the minutes used ... As to your example used above, SPCS has
not
> >applied any additional charges, at least none reported here in this
> >newsgroup.
>
> Thank you for your speedy and helpful reply.


Extra clarification of minutes used. The total number of anytime and
night/weekends minutes are counted as used, not PCS-PCS minutes.