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VZW socal news hot off the grapevine

Discussion in 'Western US Wireless Forum' started by foofighter, May 19, 2005.

  1. foofighter

    foofighter Junior Member
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    Apparently, VZW corporate has finally looked into how the socal market has been performing and they are not very happy. It seems that every year the socal market has spent all of their budgeted allowance for network deployment but never make their "on-air" numbers.

    Well the word is out that they are letting all of their independent contractors that are involved w/ the deployment of the network go tomorrow (5/20). They've also cut back their planned on-air sites for 05 from a little over 100 sites down to 95 for the entire 2005 year!!!

    I hope their network is robust enough to handle the added subscribers as they MIGHT get into capacity issues.

    Anyway, i've emailed my high school friend that's an employee over there to see if they will need an in-house zoning manager or project manager ;)
     
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  2. jones

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    Why don't they shut Down their
    Analog Network, that would save
    them Millions in Electric Bills Alone.
    The Spectrum Gained can Be used to
    Increase CDMA Bandwidth.
     
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    I don't think Verizon would want to bend that far over with the FCC watching. :D
     
    #3 budney, May 19, 2005
  4. larry

    larry Sprint loyalist and former mod
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    What analog network? As far as I can tell Verizon barely has any useable analog signal left here in the LA market.
     
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  5. foofighter

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    believe it or not they still have to have analog on...because as hard as it seems, there are still customers out there that have not migrated over to digital. And by law they still have to provide those customers with the service they paid for.
     
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  6. larry

    larry Sprint loyalist and former mod
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    When I force my phone to analog mode all I usually get is a fast busy signal. Looks like they aren't keep it up.
     
    #6 larry, May 19, 2005
  7. KevinJames

    KevinJames WA's 1st retired mod
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    Maybe because you are Sprint customer and the agreement is for digital only?? (don't know, not picking a fight). ;)
     
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  8. WirelessBeachBum

    WirelessBeachBum Soylent Green is People
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    they have to keep analog signal on, they don't have to spend lots of money optimizing it, as long as the signal is on they are in the clear.
     
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  9. Andy

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    JOnes, as you are well aware, VZW cannot
    shut down their AMPS netowrk yet, in fact, nobody
    operating an AMPS network can shut it down yet.
     
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    Does anyone remember the date they can turn off the analog, isn't it a few years away?
     
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    I think it used to be 2007 if that hasn't been pushed back further...
     
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    February 18, 2008.

    Both of SoCal's analog networks are overloaded, hence the fast-busy. But neither carrier cares as long as they are complying with the mandate to keep in on. In less-congested areas of the country, analog works just fine and gives us additional channels to access should the digital channels get crowded.

    OnStar is one of the biggest analog users and can access A or B channel, and can wait for a channel to clear. Also with a more powerful signal and external antenna, they will overpower any handset-only users. I'm betting the OnStar users alone can be hogging the available channels there.
     
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  13. larry

    larry Sprint loyalist and former mod
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    Actually there are still many Sprint phones out there that can only roam analog. So Verizon has both a digital and analog roaming agreement with Sprint. But the analog is useless in many parts of So. Cal.
     
    #13 larry, May 20, 2005
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