Hey VZWguru
I completely understand what you said about a company having to evaluate a change, like the 9PM-->7PM situation, and how it would affect many different areas of the company. If the ATT/Cingular attempt at super-glueing themselves together gains traction, I'd imagine VZW will put a 7PM option on the front burner.
If I can pick your brain...I'm a Cingular customer...save the booing and hissing till I'm done ;-)...and am not on any of their newer plans. I'm on a 2+ year old TDMA/analog Nation plan with a Nokia 5165. I've studied what your plans and current phones look like and just wonder if you guys are committed to continuing to offer at least some phones with analog capability for the near-term or are they planning to switch to all...
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If I can pick your brain...I'm a Cingular customer...save the booing and hissing till I'm done ;-)...and am not on any of their newer plans. I'm on a 2+ year old TDMA/analog Nation plan with a Nokia 5165. I've studied what your plans and current phones look like and just wonder if you guys are committed to continuing to offer at least some phones with analog capability for the near-term or are they planning to switch to all...
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It's all the meth. I love it when they find the hidden labs by the explosion method 😁 .
I did my basic training at Ft Leonard Wood - talk about the end of the Earth. No offense, but I NEVER want to go back to Missouri. Pretty good Verizon coverage in Rolla, though.
None of the carriers are going to turn off the analog towers for a while yet, they make too much in roaming fees from other carriers to do that. I have a feeling that as consumers push for more & more feature-rich phones, they'll be getting all-digital, since you can cram more junk into a smaller space if you don't have to deal with analog circuitry. I bet within the next year most carriers will offer 1 or 2 digital/analog handsets, with the rest being all-digital.
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I did my basic training at Ft Leonard Wood - talk about the end of the Earth. No offense, but I NEVER want to go back to Missouri. Pretty good Verizon coverage in Rolla, though.
None of the carriers are going to turn off the analog towers for a while yet, they make too much in roaming fees from other carriers to do that. I have a feeling that as consumers push for more & more feature-rich phones, they'll be getting all-digital, since you can cram more junk into a smaller space if you don't have to deal with analog circuitry. I bet within the next year most carriers will offer 1 or 2 digital/analog handsets, with the rest being all-digital.
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WE do and always currently offer Tri-Mode phone that include Analog ,PCS,and Digital Technologies in our phones. VZW as to date is not switching to all digital. 😁
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Please do not get offended, for that's not my intent, but Tri-mode is not Analog, PCS, and "Digital". PCS is digital. Tri-Mode is Analog (800MHz), PCS (1.9 GHz), and Cellular (800MHz).
To the question, VZW has agreements with GM's On-Star, and Mercedes' Telematics that they will continue to support the analog channels, so the infrastructure will not change for quite some time. Handsets, however, are not required to support analog, although our marketting team asks that some handsets still support AMPS in order to serve the minority of our "fringe" customers. You will always be able to walk into a store and ask for a handset that still supports AMPS.
To the question, VZW has agreements with GM's On-Star, and Mercedes' Telematics that they will continue to support the analog channels, so the infrastructure will not change for quite some time. Handsets, however, are not required to support analog, although our marketting team asks that some handsets still support AMPS in order to serve the minority of our "fringe" customers. You will always be able to walk into a store and ask for a handset that still supports AMPS.
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Hi Klingon Rooster! Great question & forgive my late reply, looks like you've been given some great information on the matter. 🙂
Analog is going the way of the dodo, but not for several years yet. Systems are being switched to digital but VZW will continue to maintain all towers that are analog until they can make the switch to digital. Because of that, they will always offer trimode phones (even though we aren't mandated by the FCC). I believe most of the phones that will be offered the rest of the year will be trimode because there is still a huge need for it & we aren't going to let our customers down until we find a better digital solution for those analog spots. We want to increase coverage and quality of call not reduce it. Doe...
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Analog is going the way of the dodo, but not for several years yet. Systems are being switched to digital but VZW will continue to maintain all towers that are analog until they can make the switch to digital. Because of that, they will always offer trimode phones (even though we aren't mandated by the FCC). I believe most of the phones that will be offered the rest of the year will be trimode because there is still a huge need for it & we aren't going to let our customers down until we find a better digital solution for those analog spots. We want to increase coverage and quality of call not reduce it. Doe...
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