Alltel City to City
Does anyone know when Alltel is going to come close to having internetwork handoffs? It is very frustrating that I STILL cannot drive from one market to another without a dropped call! Sorry to say, but Verizon has got this problem fixed on their own network.
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ravejax78 said:
I'm fine travelling between Richmond, VA and Pittsburgh.
I was surprised that when I was on a call in 2004, my phone on Verizon got handed off to an Alltel tower with no problem, but unfortunately, it was from a Verizon digital tower to an Alltel analog tower at the state line crossing into Michigan. It was when my phone switched from an Alltel analog tower to an Alltel digital tower, then the call dropped. This was right around the Benton Harbor/New Buffalo Michigan area. I'll have to try it out again where the service handoffs work well, now that Verizon has PCS coverage along all of I-94 in Michigan, and find out if my phone will handoff to an Alltel digital tower where Verizon didn't a...
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On CDMA you can go from digital to analog okay, but you cannot go from analog back to digital without dropping the call. That is apparently the nature of CDMA service in general.
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I have issues going to analog...I wonder if it's my phone. I don't really care, as it's just once in a while, but I would imagine that it can be a pain in the ass.
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Yeah as long as you are on an interstate or in town (in small towns there is no signal either). Get on side roads or rural areas there are no towers to be found.
As far as for Cingular, I've been there done that. Thanks goodness I found Alltel.
As far as for Cingular, I've been there done that. Thanks goodness I found Alltel.
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except...for the hard handoff...not so seemless.....not to mention almost all analog towers have or will be converted to digitial by 2008.
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