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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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| David S 2005-05-28, 6:55 am |
| On Tue, 24 May 2005 21:29:41 GMT, "Steven M. Scharf"
<scharf.steven@linkearth.net> chose to add this to the great equation of
life, the universe, and everything:
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>I called Verizon three times, just to be certain that the information was
>correct. It is all true. There is no more roaming off-network on America's
>Choice (AC). I think your confusion is that when the rest of us refer to AC
>we mean all of AC, including the Extended Network, but you think that we are
>referring only to native Verizon coverage.
Because that's what you said in your original post. Let's reexamine it:
quote:
> The original America's Choice calling plan from Verizon was a great plan. It
> included a lot of off-network roaming, at no extra charge, in areas where
> Verizon did not have a network.
See? You originally said "off-network roaming at no extra charge." That's
Extended Network.
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>what they really mean is that you cannot
> actually roam onto any other carrier's network.
Sure you can, as long as it's part of the Extended Network. Your original
alarmist post makes a strong implication that even Extended Network is
gone. Then when someone says you're wrong, you come back and say no,
Extended Network is part of the network. You can't have it both ways.
quote:
> Previous America's Choice subscribers will still be able to roam off
> Verizon, though there will be less and less included roaming, as Verizon
> abandons roaming agreements.
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>The bottom line is that if you are in one of the many areas where there is
>no AC coverage, either on Verizon or on the Extended Network, then your
>phone will no longer work, even if you are perfectly willing to pay 69¢ per
>minute to roam.
In at least a few cases, former pay-roaming areas (which may still be pay
areas for AC1) have been included in the Extended Network for AC2. (True,
many other areas are "no service" for AC2, which is why I'm sticking with
AC1.)
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