ANALOG ONLY setting question

Analog is a form of network that is used in rural areas where thei regular systems dont reach.........a lot of farmland and country-side use the analog..........AMPS and analog ar one and the same.........and since AMPS is a different network from the digital CDMA...........the Sys IDs will not be the same

 

Hi,

The CDMA and AMPS SID don't both have to be the same in a georgraphic area. I believe that Verizon does not use the same SID for their CDMA and AMPS in your area, so what you are getting is correct.
AMPS, as Smartestchild explained is just another type of network, it's older and takes up a lot more capacity, hence carriers switched to CDMA. Depending on your area, you may never need a phone with AMPS. I live out west, where a lot of coverage is said to be AMPS, and I've personally only have digital only phones. Turning AMPS on your phone ON may help you if the CDMA signal is weak or for some reason won't let you make a call, as AMPS is often able to complete the call successfully. Hope this helps.

 

*228 has nothing to do with this. Every market has different SID's. Some market, like my market use same SIDs for both AMPS and CDMA, other markets, like yours use one SID for CDMA and one SID for AMPS.
So, in short, yes, your SID number will change as you travel to another market, roam on another carrier.

 

That's because *228 download the latest PRL to your phone. A PRL is what your phone uses to know what carriers it can and cannot use. Verizon usually doesn't update PRLs every month, it's more like every 3 months. The reason why Verizon wants you to update your PRL before you go on vacation is so you have the most current PRL, which should give you the best possible signal... if you want to know more, here's a link to what's changed in the latest Verizon PRL...sometimes they are small changes, sometimes they are bigger.

Here is the complete list of changes from PRL version 50644 to PRL version 50698 (AC II / ERI / 1x):

United States
01541 (USCC - NC) increased in PRI (now preferred over ALLTEL)

Canada
16390 (MT&T Mobility - NS) PCS entry added
16408 (NBTel Mobility - NB) PCS entry added
16414 (NewTel Mobility - NF) PCS entry added
16430 (Island Tel Mobility - PE) PCS entry added

Caribbean
08129 (caymanone - Cayman Islands) added (now preferred over Blue Sky Wireless)
22300/04177 (cruise ship services) consolidated into single GEO
08097 (Bermuda Digital - Bermuda) PCS entry moved from Caribbean GEO to cruise ship GEO

Here's a thread about another VZW PRL released last October and it's changes from the previous PRL:
http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/verizon-wireless-users/58626-new-prls-10-31-06-a.html

 

I don't know what other carriers plan on doing this but the FCC is going to allow carriers to shut of Analog in 2/08, so if Verizon plans on shutting it down like Cingular is planning on doing, eventually the Analog only selection may be moot.

Does anyone know what other carriers other then Cingular, plan on shutting off Analog in 08?

 

analog sucks when it comes to reliability and call quality.........when you make an analog call you have to stand still otherwise it sounds like an old movie.........and the ability to place calls can vary with the network like how kempt it is

 

I'm not sure if there's any truth to it but I don't think an analog phone can be located using the GPS feature......so for not-so-legal activities that may the way to go.

 

for the time-of-arrival GPS because analog cannot support the digital "computations" to call it something.........that CDMA nowadays does do.......if the analog phone is outfitted with satellite GPS which id love to her about.........then it could use the GPS