No more analog roaming agreements?
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(GSM1900/AMPS) when analog roaming. I found this out by visiting beautiful
downtown Omaha, Nebraska (sans GSM service). The rep informed me that ALL
ANALOG ROAMING AGREEMENTS have been dropped. Oh really? Funny, I can dial
out just fine. As I was driving across the continnetal divide (nowhere
Colorado) I decided to switch over to AMPS just to make sure they had
cancelled the roaming agreement(s). Low in behold, analog service roaming
on AT&T Wireless works great. I spent 45 minutes waiting to talk with VS
technical support (at $.45/min which I plan to have VS eat -- wonder if
they'll bill me for it???)
Does anybody out there in newsgroup land still able to use analog service
(AMPS) with their voicestream phone (Nokia owners w/ analog sleeves)?
Admittedly, the number of places which don't have GSM service is shrinking
fast.
Jas
jas1...@spamhotmail.com
(ditch the nospam to e me)
Dean
Maybe there was no roaming in Omaha with the A carrier, but the B
carrier would work? Or vice versa? I did just check today and my
Analog roaming was still working here in Central Florida. Although I
did notice that I wasn't receiving calls with the B Carrier. It did
work fine with the A carrier. I do not remember who is who here in
reference to A and B, although I am suspecting AT&T is B.
I did receive an unexpected SIM update last night, and then when I saw
your message I thought "Holy marketing ploys Batman, my 888 will now
just be a good phone, not the great communications wonder that it
was". But fortunately the update had nothing to do with Evil plots to
do away with Analog support. Turns out the SIM update was to make
sure that the VERY recently activated AT&T GSM network here is listed
with the cute description of "FORBIDDEN" when searching through the
active networks.
I have heard that VS is not longer adding support for Analog to new or
existing accounts. Glad I got mine done last spring. I was hoping to
add Analog support for the wife and get a analog "monkey" for the back
of her Nokia, but it looks like I missed the boat on that one.
Dean
Malcolm W
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:32:25 GMT, NetUser101 <nong...@intnet.net>
wrote:
>That's an internal VS Intranet link, you can't access it from the
>public internet. Sorry for the confusion.
>
>
>On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:24:48 -0800, Joseph Singer
><joeofs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>That URL referenced no longer works.
>>
>>On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:27:43 GMT, NetUser101 <nong...@intnet.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>It's my understanding that analog roaming is still permitted for
>>>customers that had it from when it was originally offered. What the
>>>CSR was probably referring to is VS's "current" policy, which states:
>>>
>>>"Revised 08/06/01: This featured can only be offered to VoiceStream
>>>West (VSW) and Powertel customers. It is not available to new
>>>customers in VoiceStream East (VSE) or Central (VSC).... We will only
>>>activate this feature for the VSW and Powertel customers after
>>>05/25/01. If the feature was inadvertently deleted from the customer’s
>>>account due to VoiceStream error you may reactivate the feature."
>>>
>>>Believe me, they do "inadvertently delete" shite all the time!
>>>
>>>Call the CSR back. If they give you trouble, have them reference the
>>>following in Streamline:
>>>
>>>http://streamline.voicestream.com/policies/dualmode.shtml
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Jason Nelson
there recently... At least 6 towers in Omaha (another coming), from what I
heard. There are about a dozen other towns with live towers, including
Lincoln. They will not be selling service up there, and the coverage will
not be advertised. They also will not take any trouble tickets for the
area. These sites are just meant to keep their licenses for the time
being... I haven't been up there to check any of this myself.
"news.earthlink.net" <jas1...@spamhotmail.com> wrote in message
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Omaha downtown area. In fact, the next day I got a GSM signal at the
airport. But downtown was nothing but AMPS.
By the way, I swtiched over to AMPS in my home/local market and tried a test
call and it rang! Don't know if somebody actually fixed something or ???
"Jason Nelson" <j_...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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council bluffs, iowa, and i was pleasantly surprised to have
voicestream GSM coverage up I-80 just past Lincoln right through to
Council Bluffs, at which point the signal vanished.
Must be a new VS test market....
That was on 12/14/2001.
brian
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:44:36 GMT, "news.earthlink.net"
<jas1...@spamhotmail.com> wrote:
Thomas T. Veldhouse
wrote:
That is the my exact problem. I at least want coverage along major
highways. A bit useful for car trouble, accidents or other
emergencies. All the other major providers offer analog fallback that
does work in these cases.
Tom Veldhouse
vel...@yahoo.com