Verizon Coverage: really 96% all digital now?

Sounds about right to me.

 

Could be a play on words in a way. In Maine, if I go analog it is on one of their roaming partners like USCC. Technically, whenever I have a Verizon signal, it's digital so I guess they could say they are 100% digitial there, but I do get analog from other carriers through the present PRL.

Suliman

 

Yes that's very believable to me... The only problem I see is with preferred roaming partners which only have analog.

 

how could a company still be all analog...who in their right mind wants an all analog phone without digital features. plus those analog phones are ugly ! how does a company like that turn a profit !

 

It could mean that 96% of their network traffic is now digital. I know Cingular uses those terms in their SEC filings (I think they are up to 98% digital traffic now).

 

It's not that a company is all analog now, but just that Verizon roams on their analog signal. For example, in some places US Cellular has not converted from TDMA to CDMA yet. Verizon will still roam on USCC, it will just use their analog signal since it obviously can't use the TDMA one. The same could be true if ATT is in a Verizon PRL somewhere.

 

oh thanks matt your my hero......LOL j/k thanks

 

LOL, I am a hero to so many...I hope I don't let them all down!

 

You shouldn't have to wait that long!

 

your my hero too matt! =]

 

My local Verizon publicist guarantees that their network will be 100% digital, and Express Network-capable, by "Mid-Year 2003." That's their towers, not other companies' towers. Mid-year is 7/1/2003, but it would also be accurate a couple months either side.

Our state's geographic area was less than 50% covered by digital by Verizon as recently as last fall, but the rural areas that were still analog were served by only a few dozen cell sites. It APPEARS as though all of those analog sites are now upgraded and are now digital, and so far I have found that our state now has 100% of their sites operating in digital, but in some areas the signal drops into analog, and therefore the state could be said to be covered by only 95 to 99% of digital signal, even though 100% of the sites are digital.

-Bill

 

I wouldn't wait to upgrade to the all digital... I for one are never in an analog area except when my phone craps out.

 

I have been, for a long time, very anti-digital only phones, especially as far as Verizon is concerned. I pretty much still am, since I don't see why you would pay the same amount of money on the AC network for a coverage area that is much smaller than what someone with a tri-mode phone gets for the same amount of money. I guess it's just the principle of it all. But I am beginning to think that as long as you keep an old phone with analog capabilities in your house or glove box, you should be ok if there is ever an emergency. You can find old phones with analog for 5 bucks on eBay.

So to anyone contemplating all digital...if you never used analog in the past, you probably won't miss it. Just keep a phone with analog capabilities close at hand should you ever find yourself in some sort of emergency situation.

Just my (ever changing) opinion.

 

Why do you think I still refuse to move from TDMA to GSM?

 

Because you want to spite Northform?

 

I wouldn't activate the 2nd phone...just make sure it always had a charge in the battery...if I had some kind of emergency I wouldn't hesitate to place a call charged to my credit card.

 

If you take a look at this map , its quite clear that VZW's digital coverage is far less than 96%!

 

That map you posted doesn't prove anything???

Verizon is saying that 96% of their system is digital -- they did not say that they have covered 96% of the country with digital service. Do you see the difference?

 

I hear Verizon will soon be releasing a map showing digital and analog coverage superimposed on one another...that will go a long way towards seeing how much of the network is digital...I presume it is at least 90% by now

 

anthro's a MODERATOR ...im jealous

 

I think it's believeable that VERIZON'S network is 96% digital. The new map of the AC coverage does show quite a bit more coverage. I think it's a play on words, because yes, it could be that VERIZON's actual native network is 96+% digital, but their roaming partners might not be in which you would experience analog.

H.T.H,

--J.T

 

not only could you do it that way, but wireless networks have a thing with the fcc that allows you to call 911 even on a phone that is not activated. but only if you call 911. so if you have a phone to donate, give it the women's abuse support, they give them to women of domestic violence.

 

Eventually though, the analog is due to be shutdown. Just as is ATT's TDMA, when their GSM is fully implemented (what,......2010 ?)