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- 03-09-2004, 05:49 PM #1RickGuest
When traveling by car I experience varying degrees of SprintPCS coverage. My
phone often indicates that it is either roaming digitally or analog. I have
the Free and Clear America feature so I really don't care when I'm roaming
other than the loss of features such as CallerID and voicemail notification.
My complaint is that when my phone is roaming with a very strong signal and
I dial a call, prior to the call being connected the phone will switch from
this strong roaming signal to even the weakest hint of a SprintPCS signal if
it is available. Of course with this very marginal signal I can't make a
decent call. Does anyone else see this happening? I'm on PRL 10021. Will
upgrading to the lastest PRL help? I suppose for a caller without F&C this
last ditch effort to connect the call on Sprint's network makes sense but
I'm more interested in a clear call than whose network it's on. Any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Rick
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- 03-09-2004, 06:44 PM #2Robert M.Guest
Re: Roaming in Sprint fringe area
In article <[email protected]>, "Rick" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> When traveling by car I experience varying degrees of SprintPCS coverage. My
> phone often indicates that it is either roaming digitally or analog. I have
> the Free and Clear America feature so I really don't care when I'm roaming
> other than the loss of features such as CallerID and voicemail notification.
> My complaint is that when my phone is roaming with a very strong signal and
> I dial a call, prior to the call being connected the phone will switch from
> this strong roaming signal to even the weakest hint of a SprintPCS signal if
> it is available. Of course with this very marginal signal I can't make a
> decent call. Does anyone else see this happening? I'm on PRL 10021. Will
> upgrading to the lastest PRL help? I suppose for a caller without F&C this
> last ditch effort to connect the call on Sprint's network makes sense but
> I'm more interested in a clear call than whose network it's on. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
If you know you are in a fringe area and are on the F&CA plan, you go
into SETUP and set the phone to use ANALOG only, so it won't be trying
to use an unusable SprintPCS signal.
- 03-10-2004, 04:33 PM #3RickGuest
Re: Roaming in Sprint fringe area
"Robert M." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>, "Rick" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > When traveling by car I experience varying degrees of SprintPCS
coverage. My
> > phone often indicates that it is either roaming digitally or analog. I
have
> > the Free and Clear America feature so I really don't care when I'm
roaming
> > other than the loss of features such as CallerID and voicemail
notification.
> > My complaint is that when my phone is roaming with a very strong signal
and
> > I dial a call, prior to the call being connected the phone will switch
from
> > this strong roaming signal to even the weakest hint of a SprintPCS
signal if
> > it is available. Of course with this very marginal signal I can't make a
> > decent call. Does anyone else see this happening? I'm on PRL 10021. Will
> > upgrading to the lastest PRL help? I suppose for a caller without F&C
this
> > last ditch effort to connect the call on Sprint's network makes sense
but
> > I'm more interested in a clear call than whose network it's on. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rick
>
> If you know you are in a fringe area and are on the F&CA plan, you go
> into SETUP and set the phone to use ANALOG only, so it won't be trying
> to use an unusable SprintPCS signal.
With what I perceive to be an overall degradation of the analog cellular
infrastructure I'm hesitant to switch to analog only (but I have on occasion
when I need to complete a call and am in the fringe area). I guess I'll just
have to live with things the way they are until sprint fills in this gap
(between Sioux City and Omaha specifically) or my phone and/or the network
become smart enough to know when a visible signal is actually useable.
Rick
- 03-10-2004, 04:49 PM #4Robert M.Guest
Re: Roaming in Sprint fringe area
In article <[email protected]>, "Rick" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> With what I perceive to be an overall degradation of the analog cellular
> infrastructure I'm hesitant to switch to analog only (but I have on occasion
> when I need to complete a call and am in the fringe area). I guess I'll just
> have to live with things the way they are until sprint fills in this gap
> (between Sioux City and Omaha specifically) or my phone and/or the network
> become smart enough to know when a visible signal is actually useable.
Two issues there.
1. It's hard to get cell companies to give honest information about
future activities. They (perhaps correctly) regard it as corporate
secrets that need to be protected.
2. Cell phones are now designed to shw striong sinal presence as long as
there's any signal, as it generates fewer phone calls complaining about
weak signals.
- 03-10-2004, 05:58 PM #5Chris RussellGuest
Re: Roaming in Sprint fringe area
Definitely get PRL 10023 as these last 2 PRL's contain a wealth of digital
roaming. It might be more inclined to stay on that Verizon signal with a
sid that says 'accept'. I know that on this trip from Miami Lakes, FL over
to San Ramon, CA and now up in Portland, OR, there was a great deal more
digital roaming than ever before (w/10023).
Chris
"Rick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> When traveling by car I experience varying degrees of SprintPCS coverage.
My
> phone often indicates that it is either roaming digitally or analog. I
have
> the Free and Clear America feature so I really don't care when I'm roaming
> other than the loss of features such as CallerID and voicemail
notification.
> My complaint is that when my phone is roaming with a very strong signal
and
> I dial a call, prior to the call being connected the phone will switch
from
> this strong roaming signal to even the weakest hint of a SprintPCS signal
if
> it is available. Of course with this very marginal signal I can't make a
> decent call. Does anyone else see this happening? I'm on PRL 10021. Will
> upgrading to the lastest PRL help? I suppose for a caller without F&C this
> last ditch effort to connect the call on Sprint's network makes sense but
> I'm more interested in a clear call than whose network it's on. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
>
- 03-10-2004, 08:31 PM #6JRWGuest
Re: Roaming in Sprint fringe area
Robert M. wrote:
> 2. Cell phones are now designed to shw striong sinal presence as long as
> there's any signal, as it generates fewer phone calls complaining about
> weak signals.
And you know this for a fact?
"NAUGHT..." <-- Pinky and the Brain © Steven Speilberg
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