Recently, I have noticed that when I call a landline from my cell. Now my number and NAME will come up. It is nice that Alltel does this. I have 2 phones with Alltel. Is there anyway to edit the name that displays on the caller ID? I would like to keep my phone with my name and my wifes with her name on it.
Yes. Call CS and ask them to change the caller ID name on your wife's line. It should take about 5 minutes, depending on hold times.
I know that NEXTEL often allowed you to change it to whatever you want, so maybe now Sprint allows it too, cause I don't remember them used to allowing it. What did it show before?? Just like City/State kind of thing?
With Alltel it generally shows the account holder name or something like Wireless Subscriber or Alltel Wireless, unless it's changed.
Here Verizon has TOWN,ST. I thought they would do the name. They must be busy doing their V Cast thing.
I'm actually happy my phone doesn't display my name but SALT LAKE, UT instead. ALLTEL WIRELESS or CELLULARONE would also be cool NokiaCrazy, do you know if all of ALLTEL's network in Utah is now all digital? I know that the last CELLULAR ONE/WESTERN WIRELESS maps showed a lot of Utah as still analog. Sorry to be taking this off topic.
Is there any areas around I-15 that you know of that are still analog? ALLTEL has few pockets of low/no service from St.George to the Utah County border where Verizon drops out a ton of times, but I'm wondering if that's because their network just doesn't reach to some of those places or because some sites are still analog? ALLTEL does have a site on the AZ side of the Virgin River just as you leave it. It's an Omni site that reaches in quite a bit into the Virgin River. When driving inside the river, I saw at least one cellsite up on top of a mountain, but I didn't get any CDMA service, nor GSM. Didn't check AMPS. Western Wireless last maps showed all through the Virgin River analog. Does ALLTEL have AMPS through the Virgin River??? Do you know?
Alltel has everything WWC had prior to conversion. They are working on deploying more CDMA but there are still parts of Utah that are AMPS-only because they're further out from the major usage areas. The majority of Alltel CDMA coverage in Utah runs along 15 and 70.
Moto, do you have any maps that you could share with us that show ALLTEL's native coverage in Utah, and maybe even distinguishes their CDMA and AMPS? Western Wireless had nice maps that distinguised for the public, but ALLTEL's maps are all blue and you can't tell a difference.
Andy, YES YES YES. Inside the Virgin River Gorge on I-15 (Arizona) is still analog. I forgot about that. I think that area is called Littlefield,AZ. The tower that I mentioned earlier is Frisco Peak,UT. Frisco Peak is about 9000 ft in elevation. Covers Milford, Minersville UT areas.
All of I-15 is covered by Alltel CDMA Utah county south. Yes there is two spots where service is lost. Just for a moment and your back on the phone talking again.
AWESOME!!!! This is great news that ALLTEL covers the Virgin River Gorge. The Cellsite outside the Gorge on the AZ side is actually in Littlefield like you mentioned. It's an Omni site and the only digital site around because the neighborhod list in field test is zero(0) so no other sites around. Is Frisco Peak the only analog site ALLTEL has left? Do you think there's more? Their southern UT coverage is just unbelievable looking at the maps and once it's all digital it will be awesome. Verizon actually does a crappy job on I-15 south of the UT county border to St. George. Other than the areas where there's towns around, their service cuts in and out a lot. I always force my phone onto ALLTEL so I can actually have a conversation. Thank you so much for this information! Do you travel to other areas of Southern UT like the Moab area??? If so, could you tell me how ALLTEL fares in those areas.
There is a analog site somewhere inside the Gorge. It is around the rest area in the Gorge. I can use analog inside the Gorge but I would not recommend it. Wait until you get out of the Gorge before using the phone. And the tower outside of the Gorge is digital. I never heard of an Omni site before. Eastern Utah on I-70 is still analog. And Pioche and Caliente,NV is still analog only for Cell One.... I mean Alltel. I never been to Moab.
The blue on this map shows where Alltel has 1X coverage and the green shows where Verizon has 1X coverage but Alltel doesn't. It isn't exactly what you guys have been talking about but it does show part of the puzzle for you. Alltel's cdma coverage is larger than the 1X. Last summer when I was visiting Utah with my Alltel phone I had cdma coverage nearly everywhere except while in the valley of Zion National Park. Coverage at Bryce was fine as was coverage most of the length of highway 12. http://www.alltel.com/business/images/map_mobilelink_utah.gif
Yeah, you could be right about the site being around the rest area. It's high on top of a mountain and visible from the highway if you look closely. I wonder if this will give ALLTEL continous digital coverage from ST. George to the AZ border through the Gorge when they convert this site to CDMA. An Omni-directional site is a site that's not direction(that doesn't use panels), but instead normal round, thin 'antennas' if I may call it that. Music, thanks for the map. So other than the blue pictured on the map, all other ALLTEL coverage in Central/Southern UT is still analog?