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- 07-16-2006, 10:05 PM #31Mij AdyawGuest
Re: Cingular and Sprint Pursuing Settlement in Dispute over Advertising Claims
If you are not charged for it, then it is true-service.
"Jerome Zelinske" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In my opinion, being able to roam, even "free", does not increase a
> carrier's coverage. It is still not true service from your carrier.
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- 07-17-2006, 08:54 AM #32Thomas T. VeldhouseGuest
Re: Cingular and Sprint Pursuing Settlement in Dispute over Advertising Claims
Jerome Zelinske <[email protected]> wrote:
> Verizon's network is either all overlaid with cdma, or did not
> have an analog underlay to begin with. Having a verizon phone that
> includes analog will not gain any additional verizon network coverage.
> It may on rare instances gain additional analog roaming coverage. Which
> state does make a difference. In WI, cingular has a larger covered area
> than verizon, so does uscellular and Sprint PCS.
MN as well, as the current Sprint PCS plans cover free roaming and the native
Sprint network is larger than the native Verizon network.
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- 07-17-2006, 08:56 AM #33Thomas T. VeldhouseGuest
Re: Cingular and Sprint Pursuing Settlement in Dispute over Advertising Claims
Jerome Zelinske <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my opinion, being able to roam, even "free", does not increase a
> carrier's coverage. It is still not true service from your carrier.
Excluding data and perhaps a voicemail indication, why should you care?
Granted, roaming analog is a drawback, but if you roam digital, why should you
care? I drive along the north shore of Lake Superior and roamed onto Verizon
for digital and then roamed onto a local carrier for analog and didn't pay a
dime. I was making and receiving phone calls the entire time. No complaints
from me in that area. Sprint PCS by the way.
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- 07-17-2006, 09:09 AM #34Mij AdyawGuest
Re: Cingular and Sprint Pursuing Settlement in Dispute over Advertising Claims
Tommy T is correct. Why should you care if you are roaming if you can make
and receive calls at no additional charge?
"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Jerome Zelinske <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In my opinion, being able to roam, even "free", does not increase
>> a
>> carrier's coverage. It is still not true service from your carrier.
>
> Excluding data and perhaps a voicemail indication, why should you care?
> Granted, roaming analog is a drawback, but if you roam digital, why should
> you
> care? I drive along the north shore of Lake Superior and roamed onto
> Verizon
> for digital and then roamed onto a local carrier for analog and didn't pay
> a
> dime. I was making and receiving phone calls the entire time. No
> complaints
> from me in that area. Sprint PCS by the way.
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- 07-18-2006, 10:18 AM #35Isaiah BeardGuest
Re: Cingular and Sprint Pursuing Settlement in Dispute over AdvertisingClaims
Mij Adyaw wrote:
> If you are not charged for it, then it is true-service.
I would only count it IF you received ALL of your services (Voice, DATA,
SMS, effective call routing to your customer service number) seamlessly,
and without knowing you're roaming if it werent' for your roaming
indicator. THAT I might consider "true service."
Unfortunately that's not always the state of things. WHen you roam,
voice will work, most of the time. SMS and VM notifications will work
some of the times, and only in some places.
Seeing as no "home" carrier can fully guarantee the service of other
roaming partners, it can't and shouldn't be called "true" service. Even
Sprint's "affiliate" operation that they used to fill out their network
was a bit dubious, but at least 99.9% of the time, it worked seamlessly
to the end user (in spite of protracted legal battles, particularly
towards the close of the S-N merger).
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