CDMA delayed ring issue finally coming to an end soon??

With some carriers they will allow you to change the settings as to how often the phone checks the paging channel. Of course the more often it checks the higher your battery consumption. Most carriers have switched to make the tower control this setting, I assume to control network resources better.

In the past a worked for a small carrier and we would move that setting up higher on phones that would perform less than perfect in poor coverage areas, this would sometimes help because the more often your phone is looking for a ring the more likely it's going to catch one.

 

Part of the problem with upgrades like this is the expense for the upgrade, Switch manufacturers have to make their money, but for small carriers (heck even large carriers) switch upgrades are a huge expense, and usually it's money that the customers don't see or think about. If a carrier adds a new tower that gets customer attention. If they spend money on a switch...so what.

When I worked at that small carrier we had a tough time affording switch upgrades (and that was with only one Lucent switch.)

 

Larry, do you think this information is credible from the source you heard it from?

Do you think most national(Sprint and Verizon) will quickly do this upgrade once available? But let me get something right, if someone calls me, the network does not page the phone, but the phone pages the network every five seconds, and if someone calls me, once the phone pages the network it will receive the incoming call page? I always thought that if there's an incoming call, the network will force a page to the phone.

 

From what you are describing, it is called "Quick Page". You now have Pilot, Page, Sync and Qucik Page channels. Quick page is already deployed.

 

And you'd expect both, Sprint and VZW to deploy this?

 

That would definitely be cool.

I have only experienced the ring delay once.....maybe twice.

 

I experience this problem all the time. I tell people to call me 3 or 4 times just to make sure my phone gets the call.

 

Larry, you will have to keep us updated on the deployment of this.

 

It was horrible when I had Sprint, it would definitely be worth to fix it!

 

Agreed this will make a huge difference!!!

 

Could this have been the root cause of the Simple Freedom problems (in a VZW area) of last summer, when both phones would not detect incoming calls 90% of the time?

 

Well if all phones on the Verizon network did the same thing then yes.

 

Just thought of something... Since the SF service is actually an Alltel service, I'm wondering if maybe Verizon saw these phones as Alltel phones and the calls went to Verizon first, then to Alltel - who could not locate the phones, hence the lack of call detection.

 

This occurred with two of their phones, in the span of nine (9) days. I was on a three-way call with Alltel and VZW Network Services regarding the first phone. Verizon only saw the phone when it was on an active call, once the call ended, the phone dropped off the network. It was determined that the phone was defective, it was exchanged for another. A few days later, the second phone acted in the same manner as the first.

 

Some kind of network problem, maybe even authentication or something, but not a cellsite problem, if the network didn't even see the phone most of the time.