Debating whether or not to get PRL 10032

Larry,

What new phone did you get and did you loose your grandfathered plan? If you did not loose your grandfathered plan, how did you accomplish the upgrade?

 

Well, if you do decide to get that new PRL, good luck. I have been trying for a month with no luck.

 

Well, Verizon works better than Alltel in at least 3 places around Phoenix, albeit the difference is negligible.

I will say SMS while roaming seems to work better on VZW than Alltel.

 

What made you decide of upgrade to another LG?

POST 2000!

 

WHAT?!? That's insane!

 

I force my phone to use Verizon whenever I am at home for extended periods now. I don't have the pilot pollution issue with them that I get with Sprint at home. So for me, the ability to use SMS when roaming is fairly important.

 

ALLTEL in some parts of Arizona is said to drop a lot of calls, like around Phoenix area, but in outlying areas and desert areas ALLTEL has the coverage, where Verizon may not, but in that case your phone will switch over to ALLTEL anyways since VZW coverage is unavailable. For your trips down there I highly doubt it will matter much, larry.

 

What is pilot pollution?

 

Sometimes pilots of low flying private aircrafts throw garbage out the window of the airplane and the result is really bad littering of the surrounding terrain.

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

 

Larry,
In your area it is almost a tossup. w/10031, if it can't find Verizon, it looks for Alltel. w/10032, if it can't find Alltel, it looks for Verizon. But looking at 10032 changes, when traveling a little further inland, 10032 has a few new systems not found in 10031 like Unicel and Union Cellular, albeit in analog (since they're TDMA/GSM). Therefore, 10032 will give you more. The Alltel/VZW preference isn't as significant as having new systems.

With the new Alltel agreement, I'm betting there is a 10033 coming soon. If you ever wanted, or will have wanted, to prefer VZW, you should grab 10032 while you can, then decide when 10033 is released.

Be careful, when you sharpen the pencil too sharp, the point breaks off.

 

PRL only update you to all the NEW towers availble, you'll keep your current roaming partners plus get new ones. Sprint & Nextel have expanded our "roaming partners", your coverage is only going to get better by your PRL update, your phone will search for the strongest signal availble. Do the PRL update.

 

ARGH! PRL updates have NOTHING to do with new towers.

PRL updates have to do with new/old SIDs and moving them up or down or off the roaming list. You will not necessarily keep roaming partners. The latest PRLs switched a main roaming partner here in AZ to Verizon from Alltel. Yeah, I can still roam on Alltel, but only if there is no VZW.

Sprint must be the absolute worst when it comes to training employees

 

Before you reply I suggested you read, PRL let me define it for you
Preferred
Roaming
List
New roaming partners are always being added, to have access to their signals you need to do a PRL update. New raoming partners, means having access to thier towers...... Hummmmmmmm
Sid bid's is just a code or number for the tower you were using when you made a phone call.
That's what it means on the sprint network.
Remember PRL UPDATE Preferred Roaming List, that's when you add a roaming plan you need to do a PRL UPDATE.

Also you smart guys when you do a prl update, and we no longer have a contract with that carrier, they are removed for your Perferred Roaming List. That may be why you're having such a hard time, plus verizon leases all their towers from other carriers.

 

It sounds like you have an older phone that is not able to do the PRL update over the air, you may need to take your phone into the store and get a "software" update.

 

Rolling eyes even more, New ROAMING PARTNERS TOWERS.... if customers dont do the PRL update the phones will not search for signal with for our ROAMING PARTNERS. Of course all new sprint towers will automatically will get a signal.
Example we do contracts with other providers, so our customers can use other providers towers in roam. Hence customers will need to do a prl update.

 

You are only correct in that if an entirely new roaming partner is added, then those towers, by default (since the new SID is what is actually added) will become "visible" to the phone.

Same applies if a roaming partner adds only new towers though...the towers will automatically become available unless they have an entirely new SID.

 

The question was should this customer do a PRL update, YES he should, for reasons I've already explained.
No new "SIDS" are ever added, they already exist, unless they add coverage in area's that never ever had coverage by any other service provider like Death Valley or something.
The new Partner will become Availble on your Sprint Network when you do the PRL update, not until then.

 

BUt that is not always the case (though I agree with you in this instance). If a new PRL comes out that puts Alltel back ahead of Verizon in the priority list I would consider not getting it since Verizon is better than Alltel in Phoenix.

 

The person we are speaking of Got A NEW PHONE...... That automatically changed is current PRL. His now at a 10031, the network he wants to use is a 10032. It's always best to have the must current PRL, otherwise we just remove other partners we dont have contracts with, we can prevent your phone from using a tower/network provider we dont have a contract with. Then on an old prl the customers phone will just say "searching for service", customers then call in a say "what happend, I used to get a great roaming signal" of course we dont tell them that our contact with that network has expired, in a nice way we inform them of doing to do PRL UPDATE.