Hi I'm travelling to Montreal from New York to Montreal with my grandmother this summer. I have T-mobile as I'm sort of a GSM fanboy, but she has Verizon. I noticed that there is a spot where there is only analogue coverage.. She has no idea whether her phone supports analogue signal or not, so how are we supposed to find out? That's first time I'm asking a noob question but hell CDMA is different world to me. btw. of course I will be providing GSM coverage report
It would have helped had you posted the brand and model number of the phone. Hopefully you will post your GSM coverage to the correct group.
You can go to Phone Scoop and find her phone. If it says that it has AMPS capability or is described as a "tri-mode" phone, then it can use the analog bands.
If you could post maybe your route there. Analog has been shut down for the most part by Verizon. I am thinking you will not have this available anymore being in New York but I may be wrong. Also please dont think that just because analog is turned off you will have no service. Verizon has for the most part set the towers that were analog to digital if not yet it will be soon. Thanks In a nut shell analog wont be in use.
As of February 18, 2008 the FCC gave permission for carriers to discontinue their analog service. In actuality it was discontinued in March. There are areas in the US not covered by Verizon or AT&T that still have some analog up. I believe Alltel still has some up but it's due to be shut down as well from what I understand. All Verizon phones did not support analog. Only "tri-mode" phones did. Usually those had the "pull out" antennas. If you look up the model with a google search it may tell you whether the model handset she has does have analog. Even if she does there's a very real possibility that it won't matter since much of the analog AMPS network has been shut down now.
well, i was looking at some coverage maps of version, the north east has patches of analog still. By law, the cell providers must matain coverage, in other words, if analog goes, somethings got to be there. in a heavely wooded place, it wont be worth it, and analog signals usually survive better than digital.
If T-mobile was covering the area, do you think I would be bothering with wondering whether or not my grandmother's Verizon device will work? No. I prefer to rely on my own phone in case of emergency, but since T-mobile doesn't cover the area, I need to know about that. That was the point of that topic. btw. t-mobile roams off of unicel over there as well. apparentlyn ot everywhere though plus.. I am a prepaid user. ATT will not let their prepaids roam off on any network in the US. so I would be much more screwed with ATT prepaid than T-mobile prepaid.
Excuse me for trying to go the extra mile and maybe show everything that is going on with that area I thought maybe this would be interesting as well. I will not add anything more to this thread.
i dont think u got my point... I thought you were trying to prove me that i shouldn't complain about verizon's coverage cos t-mobile will suck.... if u didnt mean thta, im sorry. please dont get offended. and if u can....... do u know any reasons why t-mobile wouldnt roam there if ATT does? or is there a different operator up there as well? because if its all unicell, why does t-mobile roam on in the upper parts while ATT starts roaming earlier? i dont quite understand.. once again i apologise for misunderstanding and please share your knowledge with us.
Also, if you are concerned about emergencies: If you go into that Unicel area with the GSM devices, you will have access to 911. The display be blank, but if there is a signal available, the call will go thru. Federal law requires that carriers allow 911 calls to go thru if a signal is available. However, Unicel is also shutting its analog across its networks, so if the analog capable Verizon phone has no service, then you're out of luck for emergency service.
