Yea, There is some 850 mhz roaming on cingular (I think it is)in eastern washington, but in most places I go to over there is mostly verizon analog. My parents have a verizon phone and it stays on AMPS most of the time and my analog tracfone works well. I guess we will have to weight to see what happens. I suppose the GSM carriers don't need to be to conserned as they never had coverage there to begin with. Maybe verizon will hurry up and fill in those spots with AMPS only and update them to CDMA. Then I could just go to a verizon reseller for a prepaid CDMA phone to fill in the holes. At one point I to had a bag phone on page plus but I found I could get away with a hand held AMPS phone in the places I travel plus I had some problems with page plus customer service but thats another story, however there rates are much cheaper than tracfone.
Thanks, Rob --- In [email protected], "Jim MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sirrobyn0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 4:30 PM > Subject: [T-Mobile-US] TDMA - AMPS end do any other GSM users care??? > > > > With the Analog sunset date being in early 2008 I'm conserned > > what I'll have to do for cellular service when I'm travelling in remote > > parts. I'm a little curious if I'm the only one that with this > > problem and how others intend to cope with it. > > I use PagePlus (their website is awful but the provider is good) as my > secondary US carrier. It works great anywhere that Verizon has coverage (as > cheap as 8 cents a minute). 120 day expiry. 99 cent roaming, though. It > works in Canada, too, although the Rogers network is good enough up here > that you will rarely need that. Could be useful in northern Saskatchewan or > something. :) > > I actually activated a bag phone on PagePlus too. It seems wrong, having a > bag phone with a Los Angeles number, but there it is. > > I was in Minot, ND a couple of weeks ago. In the city, T-Mobile was fine > (it roamed on Dobson or Alltel). Outside of the city, GSM coverage was > awful so I used PagePlus. While we were in town, my wife had the PagePlus > phone so that if we got split up, we could still phone each other. > > It was funny - when I was getting my room key at the hotel, a guy there > needed to use a phone but didn't have a cell and there was no payphone. I > offered him my T-Mobile phone. The hotel desk employee just about had a > fit. "Aren't you from Canada? It will cost you a fortune!" I told him > "It's T-Mobile, it's got a California number and it'll cost me a dime. I > only use my Canadian phone in Canada." He seemed surprised that that was > even possible. > > Jim > - - T-Mobile-US on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/T-Mobile-US _ _ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
