Band preference

[rammon3]

Greetings all. I travel to the north part of NH most weekends and the signal is very unreliable up there unless I change the band preference to "cell only". Otherwise, the phone keeps switching back and forth between Verizon network and Extended network. It also drains the battery rapidly as a result. I believe the extended network is actually U.S. Cellular, but I could be wrong. Anyway, my question is this: What are the ramifications of leaving the band preference set to cell only?

[Charlyee]

Originally Posted by rammon3

Greetings all. I travel to the north part of NH most weekends and the signal is very unreliable up there unless I change the band preference to "cell only". Otherwise, the phone keeps switching back and forth between Verizon network and Extended network. It also drains the battery rapidly as a result. I believe the extended network is actually U.S. Cellular, but I could be wrong. Anyway, my question is this: What are the ramifications of leaving the band preference set to cell only?

Hello rammon3, welcome to WA.

I had Verizon for 5+ years and did exactly that from home, in my case the "cell only" (850 mhz ) was US Cellular, and they are Verizon's roaming partner. Verizon does not penalize for exceesive roaming, atleast not yet, so as far as I am concerned there are no ramifications.

Hope this helps.

[rammon3]

That's what I thought. Thanks for the quick reply.