VZ Roaming Question
I am currently living in oklahoma city. But there is no verizon here for another 6 months or so, but about 2 hours away is tulsa,ok which they have verizon and the stores and everything. I want to know if i get verizon which i can, but different area code. Ill be roaming all the time, will VZ kick me off there service if i roam too much?
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Not sure what will happen there, KingJohn. I established service eight years ago in the Washington, DC market with Verizon, and moved to Charlottesville, VA in November of 2004, where you cannot get a local VZW number. I gave up my VZW service on June 10th, about 9 days ago, simply because I needed to have local people be able to call me without a LD charge. Now, that's different from starting service in a non-VZW city. Keep in mind you will be in extended area 100% of the time in OKC, without access to normal things like checking your minutes or calling a CSR from your phone. Verizon may just make you wait, but you will get a Tulsa # to start with IF they allow you to activate now, which would be long distance for everyone who lives cl...
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I'm pretty sure if you make more than 60% of your calls (or something like that) that are roaming, they can cancel your service.
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VZW does reserve the right to terminate your contract if you are roaming over half of the time. I have been at VZW care 2 years never seen it happen yet. Im sure you will be ok.
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One of my friends is on my family plan. I'm in Montana, a full Verizon area, and he is in Fort Smith, Arkansas, which is extended network. He can't send pictures, update his roaming preferences, etc. He has been there for about a year now, and Verizon has never said a word. I can't imagine you would have a problem. I hear of other companies like T-Mobile and Cingular enforcing it, but if you look at their coverage maps, they also have roaming areas. Verizon doesn't. I realize they are still in roaming agreements with other companies but maybe it's not as big of a deal to them. I don't know. But I really don't think you would have a problem.
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My Question? If you are going to use someone else's network which is what your doing with roaming why be with verizon? That was my thoughts when I was in NC and verizon was hit or miss with coverage. The store said well you have extended network service. I said if I wanted alltel I will go down the street and get them I want verizon. So I canceled due to not being able to get them. Just my thoughts.
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i see, well ill be roaming 100% all the time until VZW comes to oklahoma city which will be in about a year so ill have to think about it. The thing that will suck is that i wont get Vcast or other net features. 😕
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