Anxiously awaiting Verizon's arrival in Charlottesville, Virginia!
I had Verizon service for eight great years out of the DC market, and the last 2 1/2 were in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Verizon has never offered cellular service locally. Because I needed a local number, I was let out of my contract with Verizon without penalty, which speaks volumes of good for them, IMHO. However, we all knew it was coming eventually because Verizon advertises its cellular service in this market anyway. The latest information I have is that I will be able to have a Charlottesville phone number on Verizon service in the next couple of years. I have Alltel now, and it's OK, but I have a sneaking suspicion that unless Alltel did something good at the 700 Mhz auction, they will go the way of the dinosaur. I have no ...
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wow, sucks to hear. charlottesville is hte nice lil white circle on my coverage map. we have serice all around you. sorry ☹️
havent heard anything bout exact dates yet, just keep waiting, you will be rewarded in the end
havent heard anything bout exact dates yet, just keep waiting, you will be rewarded in the end
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Well, freedomcapacity, the sooner the better. It's as close by as Waynesboro to the west, Lexington to the south, Louisa to the east, and Warrenton to the north. Your Verizon phone will work in C-ville beautifully, as long as you don't mind being in extended area 100% of the time. After a while, I did. I needed that local number. That's the only reason I bailed.
Thanks for the input.
Thanks for the input.
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When is your contract up with Alltel? If you can live with the extended service area at times, you can port your local Alltel number over to VZW and not have to wait.
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That information is incorrect. No carrier can port in a number from a market where they do not provide service.
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My understanding is it's not gonna be anytime soon. Apparently, we have a sweet deal w/Alltel in that market, so why build oour own.
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Something to consider. If you subscribe to Satellite TV or Cable TV. Dish, DirecTV, Comcast, ect. I've seemed to notice that they are advertising everyone willing to pay them, regardless of is service is available in your area or not.
That's the thing with national advertising, you can get someone's hopes up by advertising a product that will never arrive in your area...but exists somewhere in the country.
I've noticed this with Alltel here in Bellevue, WA on both Comcast and Dish. However, Alltel does not, and will never offer direct services in this area.
As for web ads, same deal...if it exists, it can be advertised online. Radio ads can also be deceiving if they are coming from an area that does have that service. (All the...
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That's the thing with national advertising, you can get someone's hopes up by advertising a product that will never arrive in your area...but exists somewhere in the country.
I've noticed this with Alltel here in Bellevue, WA on both Comcast and Dish. However, Alltel does not, and will never offer direct services in this area.
As for web ads, same deal...if it exists, it can be advertised online. Radio ads can also be deceiving if they are coming from an area that does have that service. (All the...
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Thanks for all the response, folks!
It was announced on the front page of our newspaper, The Daily Progress, last August 27th that VZW would offer service IN Charlottesville for cellular in 2010. My inquiry was that if there was more updated information, did anyone know?
What I find curious is that Verizon has been, as I said, running a television ad campaign on the local stations on cable. If Verizon wasn't coming here, why would they bother? That air time would be much more valuable to an existing provider here (Alltel, US Cellular, Sprint, AT&T...even T-Mobile, who has a presence here, but you'd never know it!). I would think VZW will be here as the newspaper said...I'm just wanting to get there sooner. My Alltel contract runs ...
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It was announced on the front page of our newspaper, The Daily Progress, last August 27th that VZW would offer service IN Charlottesville for cellular in 2010. My inquiry was that if there was more updated information, did anyone know?
What I find curious is that Verizon has been, as I said, running a television ad campaign on the local stations on cable. If Verizon wasn't coming here, why would they bother? That air time would be much more valuable to an existing provider here (Alltel, US Cellular, Sprint, AT&T...even T-Mobile, who has a presence here, but you'd never know it!). I would think VZW will be here as the newspaper said...I'm just wanting to get there sooner. My Alltel contract runs ...
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