TracFone Debuts $45 Unlimited Plan Via StraightTalk
This will be hard to match
All I know is this is def the best deal going now with great coverage. I just dropped verizon worth it in the long run. And they already ported my number and had me up and running within an hour. For those of us that text and talk at this price with this coverage cant be beat. Not everyone needs an I phone and if ya want better pics use a dig camera they will be comming out with more phones as well. But I would def reccomend. Way better then boost service etc which is horrible!
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This won't be that hard to match. It is great when you are in cities and highways. if you live in rural areas, the coverage falls off quickly.
You're not using all of verizon towers, just the ones Verizon sold roaming rights to Tracfone for.
You're not using all of verizon towers, just the ones Verizon sold roaming rights to Tracfone for.
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Menno said:
You're not using all of verizon towers, just the ones Verizon sold roaming rights to Tracfone for.
No, that is incorrect. Judging from the TracFone StraightTalk coverage map, the service has access to essentially the entire VZW native network (absent the yet to be integrated ALLTEL network).
http://www.straighttalk.com/static/straight/images/c ... »
The perception that VZW has coverage "everywhere" has developed largely through VZW's use of "Extended Network" roaming coverage. Prior to the ALLTEL acquisition, approximately 50% of VZW's (native + roaming) coverage was roaming footprint (ALLTEL, USCC, Sprint, et al.).
AJ
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..you missed the point.
what I am saying is that with Verizon, your coverage is both the native network, Alltel, and the towers they have roaming agreements with. This is all considered part of your "nationwide" coverage and so for the consumer it doesn't matter who owns the towers.
With straight talk, you will ONLY work with native towers (possibly not even the alltel towers when everything goes through) So people saying that you'll have coverage wherever verizon has it is not the case.
what I am saying is that with Verizon, your coverage is both the native network, Alltel, and the towers they have roaming agreements with. This is all considered part of your "nationwide" coverage and so for the consumer it doesn't matter who owns the towers.
With straight talk, you will ONLY work with native towers (possibly not even the alltel towers when everything goes through) So people saying that you'll have coverage wherever verizon has it is not the case.
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Menno said:
..you missed the point.
No, I did not miss the point. Your point is that TracFone StraightTalk service does not include the Extended Network footprint that VZW service does. And that is correct. But that is not what you said in your previous post.
Menno said:
You're not using all of verizon towers, just the ones Verizon sold roaming rights to Tracfone for.
Besides the facts that "towers" are just tall structures that may or may not support cell sites and that cell sites may or may not locate on "towers," you said "verizon towers."
And that can correctly mean only one of two things: all of the tall structures that VZW actually owns (upon which some...
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But that doesn't mean they'll have "great coverage" or that they will work everywhere a verizon phone will.
They are also second tier, meaning that they will only get service not being used by Verizon customer, and possible even Sprint/other carriers roaming.
Most customers when they see "roams off of verizon" assume it will work wherever Verizon phones work. This is not the case (and thus the point of my first post).
I could care less about "extended network" as a customer because it really doesn't matter. Unless my banner says something other than "verizon wireless" it doesnt matter which cell site I roam off of.
This is why I said you missed the point. I am not claiming that the news release isn't factual, I am just say...
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They are also second tier, meaning that they will only get service not being used by Verizon customer, and possible even Sprint/other carriers roaming.
Most customers when they see "roams off of verizon" assume it will work wherever Verizon phones work. This is not the case (and thus the point of my first post).
I could care less about "extended network" as a customer because it really doesn't matter. Unless my banner says something other than "verizon wireless" it doesnt matter which cell site I roam off of.
This is why I said you missed the point. I am not claiming that the news release isn't factual, I am just say...
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Menno said:
Most customers when they see "roams off of verizon" assume it will work wherever Verizon phones work. This is not the case (and thus the point of my first post).
TracFone is not marketing StraightTalk as an MVNO that "roams off of verizon." StraightTalk makes absolutely no mention of VZW on its web site. As for most customers, they will choose StraightTalk because the coverage map footprint (which, unbeknownst to them, so happens to be the VZW native footprint) is acceptable for their needs, not because it "roams off of verizon."
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This is why I said you missed the point. I am not claiming that the news release isn't factual, I am just saying it will be mi
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