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Re: Tracfone: only uses own towers/network ??
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| danny burstein 2005-12-11, 2:48 am |
| In < dng7nk$vf9$1@ratbert
.glorb.com> Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> writes:
>Well, maybe they use Cingular or Alltel or someone else in central VA - they
>don't use the same carrier everywhere, except for their Net10 prepaid
>service which exclusively uses Cingular GSM.
Would they also use the handful of "gsm corridor" and
similar tower/backbone-sharing arrangements that
Cingular, T-Mobile, and (some small number of others)
set up on some beyond-nowhere highways?
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| Steve Sobol 2005-12-11, 2:48 am |
| danny burstein wrote:
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> Would they also use the handful of "gsm corridor" and
> similar tower/backbone-sharing arrangements that
> Cingular, T-Mobile, and (some small number of others)
> set up on some beyond-nowhere highways?
That, I don't know. My impression is that most prepaid providers tied to a
single carrier don't roam, but that's just an assumption...
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