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Re: Verizon Worsens America's Choice Calling Plan--No more roaming, even at extra cost, No more Nat
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| Larry W4CSC 2005-05-27, 10:55 pm |
| CellGuy < cellguy@seemessagebo
dy.com> wrote in
news:185nb9p91ey9u.crphcfw5g0ut.dlg@40tude.net:
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> No, 911 will work if there is an analog or CDMA signal present.
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Not true in Charleston, SC. Inside my local WalMart, on a fresh VZW phone,
within 1/2 mile of an AMPS/CDMA Alltel tower and within SIGHT of a CDMA PCS
Sprint tower, the phone says NO SERVICE, because Verizon has a very weak
signal in the Oakbrook section of Summerville, SC, and the VZW PRL forbids
the phone from roaming IN-MARKET to a carrier that works....no VZW nearby
tower.
While loaning a lady my trusty old V60i on Alltel, I asked her if I could
test dialing 911 on her NO SERVICE new Verizon phone. Her call to her
husband on Alltel was perfect. My call to 911 resulted in the phones no
service warning tones and it NEVER SEARCHED for Sprint or Alltel because
both are on the exclusion list of the phone's PRL...same as her regular
calls.
Solution is simple.....If you want unhobbled 911 service for the next few
years, buy a 99 cent, 3W bagphone with a cigarette lighter plug on it from
a thrift shop and toss it in the trunk. NONE of them can stop IT from
searching for an A or B AMPS signal that works to 911....no service or
contract agreements are necessary by FCC decree.
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