Dual-Band GSM/CDMA Samsung Sighted on FCC
I Wondered When This Would Happen
With the shutdown of analog, I knew it was just a matter of time before wireless companies would begin exploring other roaming possibilities. If this new phone will roam off of AT&T and T-Mobile, it will be a big win for Verizon. The more coverage, the better.
Hopefully, the other carriers will follow suit on this.
Hopefully, the other carriers will follow suit on this.
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jrfdsf said:
With the shutdown of analog, I knew it was just a matter of time before wireless companies would begin exploring other roaming possibilities. If this new phone will roam off of AT&T and T-Mobile, it will be a big win for Verizon. The more coverage, the better.
Hopefully, the other carriers will follow suit on this.
Sounds good in theory, but how much more is Verizon going to charge its customers for roaming on someone else's network? You know T-Mobile and AT&T won't just let Verizon use their networks for free, and the "Great Red Communist" of all wireless networks certainly isn't going to pay the bill for this. Call me crazy, but I smell a price hike in the future for VZW customers if this...
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I believe that if this phone were to go to either Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T, that any roaming agreements worked out would be for areas that don't have native service. We don't even know yet if any carrier will have this phone in their lineup. This isn't the first phone that dual CDMA/GSM 850/1900. There was another model with CDMA/GSM 850/1900, but nobody carried it yet. Anyway, there are more areascovered by CDMA than by GSM in the United States. So both T-Mobile & at&t would need this phone more than Verizon would.
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Although the phone will be more than likely neutered, because that's how Big Red works, it's good to see that they're raising the bar for how phones should be made from now on.
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Don't forget...Open Access is set for late 08...this phone would likely be late 08-early 09. As for the "other bands"....can anyone say "global pda"? Ya know...like the i830 they already carry.
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Just to further speculate that this is replacing the i830...the i830 is rougly 2 years old (life cycle of a phone) and fits the specs for a global phone with maybe the additional domestic gsm roaming (in remote areas). But if those specs are correct for domestic gsm, don't plan on being able to use AT&T's network all the time, like people always ask with global phones 🤣 It will probably only be used in areas such as Northern Vermont or Maine...places where Verizon doesn't have coverage.
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Verizon's current price plan offering, Nationwide is a no-roam calling plan and Verizon customers are often using other carriers' networks (Alltel, U.S. Cellular and so forth) and the customer does not pay a roaming rate. Verizon does though. So, a CDMA/GSM phone will simply mean that Verizon would work out a roming agreement with AT&T and T-Mobile just as they already have with the other CDMA carriers. I am sure that they would prefer their customers to use their network whenever possible but if they get a better roaming rate with AT&T than that which they currently have with Alltel then I would not be surprised to see them place AT&T above Alltel in the preferred roaming list. In the South there are many areas in which Verizon has no n...
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