NO...they just won't be required to maintain analog services...

crazyeaglefan236 said:
NO...they just won't be required to maintain analog services...

Yep. And Anxio is definitely wrong on this one.

I'd think some carriers would keep on offerin' some analog even past the date that they're required to, just to hang onto rural customers. Of course, if there's only like 50 people in your podunk town, your screwed. ☹️

a cell phone on a boat??!!!! THE HORROR!!!! 😳 😳 😲 😲

Leave it to TMo... Only work in the middle of the lake...lol 🤣 🤣

*giggles* sry to say it..it seems service is deterorating with VZW. With the other carriers working in places VZW used to...kinda sad really.

duckbutter said:
325 is ok. but the 276 😳 what garbage

You might want to add the V265 to that list too, since my brother got that phone, and it stopped working 1 year into his 2 year contract. He had to go back to his LG VX 4400 until his contract is up. He might drop Verizon Wireless after his contract is up and get Centennial Wireless for unlimited incoming calls. He can't get US Cellular since they don't have towers in the area, but I believe they have licenses to cover Starke County Indiana.

moto 262, 266, 265, 26x is a crap design. Never had more problems with Motorola until they released those.

the V265 and V276 are nearly identical, except that the 276 is grey and the 265 is black

The 276 was supposed to fix all the issues that the 265 had. Well it didn't. The only difference I noticed was that they just slapped a different faceplate on it.

Both of them are POS

agreed

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That was the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. You are telling me that Verizon no longer has analog anywhere. Last year most of kentucky was analog. Now I believe about a third of it still is. I could care less about kentucky but just trying to say there are still analog areas. your other comment about the trimode phones picking up better is ridiculous when considering you say that there is no more analog.

Vzw's network is 100% digital that is what I am telling you. You can choose to believe it or not, either way it's no sweat off my balls!

Not quite correct...the entire VZW network might be overlayed with digital. But there are still analog areas because analog travels further.

So then tell me again why we would even carry trimode phones then? If there is no analog why have a phone that can pick it up. Can you also tell me why I have seen phone in analog in the past few months?

Actually, As I already explained in a previous post due to the fact that analog was typically harder for a antenna system to pick up the antenna system had to be better designed and actually worry about receiving signal (this is why I still have a V710) The reason that you may still see phones in analog is because other companies still run analog other co's that we have roaming agreements with! A trimode ph. will always have better reception than an all digital simply due to the antenna system being used! Now the reason that I am sure or almost sure that Vzw network is all digital, is that during a recent training the VP of our company actually showed different slides and things indicating this. I know you are saying that Oh who cares about ...
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want a cookie 🙄 Freedom isn't the biggest agent in the midwest. your still wrong. Yes many areas are analog off of other carriers but verizon still has analog on their towers as well. These are not seperate towers they run off the same one. One Verizon tower will send out digital and analog at the same time. Your phone defaults and perfers digital, but turn your phone to analog only right now. I bet it still works, i bet you probably will not be on roam or extended network. I bet maybe you will shut your pie whole and accept the truth.

Ok I see that rather than having an adult conversation you need to act like a child so when you grow up and can actually speak to me like you are an adult please return and reengage in this discussion! Also, Freedom Wireless as 60 locations please inform who is larger? Comtel? Wireless Zone? I just am very surprised by your response I actually valued your input b/c you seemed capable of discussing things and helping people to learn as well as learning yourself guess I was wrong about you anyway good luck and may all your sales be 5 phoners

Umm the agent i work for has 120 or more locations not even counting are sub agents. You want to talk about being a child you are the one that just went on a giant rant of how great you are, kinda pissed me off, talk about childish, you sitting in your store waiving a foam hand with #1 on it. Just remember we are all on the same team i can't stand people looking down upon agents by Verizon employees or other agents, that is all. You may be the biggest in pittsburgh but not the midwest, and who really cares anyway, 60 stores or 120 stores it doesn't make you smarter by having more locations and higher ups don't always get their info right, they are usually concentrating more on numbers and $. If you were given that info from your vp i wonder ...
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Who do you work for? Also, I wasn't stating those things to say that we were better than anybody just to bring a little credibility to what I was stating yeahright I normally value your opinion and I appreciate your input on this I promise I will do more research and get back to you with results and stats(even if I'm wrong) You right we are on the same team and I do apologize for the misunderstanding! Please tell me what agent you work for?

ok I just took it the wrong way no biggie it just pissed me off but I see what you mean about credibility, but I already value your opinion, and I don't really care which or even if you work for a sell phone company, you contribute to this forum and that is good enough, that post just pissed me off and in this case you are unforunately incorrect. If you don't beleive me you will find the answer yourself one day and apologize, but for now we will just agree to disagree because this isn't getting us anywhere. My company has no presence in Pa so it is not relevant, plus I had to bust yours out so I will let you figuere it out on your own and you can bust me out if you do 😉

verizon still has analog,just in cities its turned down so as to use digital only.if they was all digital then why would they need phones with analog. but they have to have analog so as to keep there coverage big.there is still parts of ohio that only has analog. even parts around pittsburg that is only analog,no digital.for those areas its because of the mountains and hills. dont always go by what a vp of a company says. 99% of the time they really do not know what they are talking about. only if they are vp in a small company of say 50 people. then they may know what they are talking about. and as the law says,analog cant be dropped until around 2008 or so.

I feel dumber now for having read that about tri mode phones using analog to pick up a better digital signal. That makes no sense whatsoever. But think whatever you want. As far as analog towers go they are still there, if you don't believe it thats fine I don't really care. Oh and you may be the largerst agent in PA/OH good job, but I seriously doubt you are the largest in the midwest. How many stores do you have?

We actually have 60 locations
http://www.4freedomwireless.com/pages/1/index.htm »
I am just going off of what I was told by reputable sources as far as Vzw's network but then again I am sure you know more than roger tang

Maybe he said that all verizon is putting up is 100% digital towers, but that doesn't mean that analog isn't still in play. However they probably are not maintaining these towers anymore.
Never said I knew more than him but why would somebody like that say that verizon is 100% digital when analog towers are still in use. Doesn't make sense. If you want to believe that its fine with me, but take a phone force it into analog only and then dial *611 it will go to verizon. If this was another companys tower more than likely it would be routed through them first.

Maybe I did misunderstand the statement I am definately going to do more research and I will get back to you with what I find ( even if I am wrong)!
However, I do know for a fact that the reason that trimode phones pick up better is due to the antenna system. Take for instance the V710 and the e815 They only added a couple things to the 815 and didn't change the antenna system! This phone is known for it's awesome ALL DIGITAL reception!

Cool, let me know what you find. For starters look at onstar. I forgot about it but most of it runs off of our analog system. It sounds like they eventually are converting it over to all digital but it isn't as of right now. I still don't agree with your logic of the trimodes picking up better. If your not in a analog are it is pointless to have on the phone. Yes the 815 is very similar to the 710 and both have excellent reception but the 815 does not have analog. So if the antenna is the same on both I don't understand what that has to do with analog and trimodes. The 815 is all digital.

My 815 works better, the 710 at my house would switch to analog everynow and then in this one part of my house and drop the call on me. Now my wife uses the 815 and it is much better. I will not argue their signal strength though, both phones get excellent rf, but I have also had great experience with some lg models at my house as well that are all digital. My chocolate seems to pick up signal great and it has the internal antenna. I think the pull out helps in extreme cases but I don't think it is a huge diffference. My old razr worked just as well as my 815 in my opinion. When we would travel to the middle of nowhere we would loose the signal in the same areas and I didn't really see any places where one worked much better than the other. ...
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What it has to do with trimodes, analog and digital is relatively simple the v710 is a trimode phone, the antenna systems built in trimode phones are stronger due to the fact that they have to work harder to pull the analog signal. The 815 is an all digital ph. that was built exactly like the 710 exept for the deletion of the analog and addition of Vcast. When Motorola built the 815 they used the same antenna system that the 710 had! When you review the 815 you see that it is known for it's ability to obtain reception and not drop the call. Proving that trimode phones are better phones for reception especially in those tough areas. The reason that trimodes phones are better at receiving signal than digital phones falls back on the antenna sy...
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Yup good old Roger, First he probably wouldn't like you dropping his name on here second you probably miss understood him or he screwed something up( nobody is perfect all the time) Third his concentration is in numbers and growth charts, that is what he does best.

I am not sure he would have a problem with us discussing him he's info. is readily avaiable from the Vzw website but anyway what agent do you work for?

yeah your probably right on the name dropping

I read that you have the choc. how do you like how's the rf? Is it just hype or is it a good ph. I generally like lg's (except for the 4650)

i like, just because it is so much different. Selling phones I am sure you are like me and get sick of the same cloned phones over and over again. This phone is just so different and you don't just pick it up and feel like you are holding every other phone from verizon, you actual have to tinker with it to get it the way you like it and it is very customizable. For a general phone user I would say stick with a normal flip but I love this thing so far. Kinda of sucks they didn't put a speakerphone on it, but other than that it will keep me happy till the lg9900 comes out. The rf seems good, my house is kinda of a dead zone and phones are hit and miss, it seems to pick up just as well as my razr did, so no signal complaints here. It worried me...
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Your absolutely right I am always changing phones however I always seem to end up back in old faithful (v710)

Wow, well I guess you need to tell verizon to upgrade their website, their brochures, and convince my mom her phone doesn't actually work when she is analog 🤣 Verizon Network is primarily digital..yes, but their are still many analog areas and many towers sending ananlog plus digital signal so if you get to far away from tower then the phone will switch to ananlog, why. Well that is easy digital signal is about .4 watts while analog is .6 so the analog is a little stronger, that has no effect whatsoever when in digital, an ananlog phone does not pick up better digital that is upsurd, if anything it is the other way around, when a tri mode phone starts getting a weak digital signal it will switch over to ananlog-and that sucks. So I woul...
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Verizon's network is NOT 100% digital. I live in a very rural area, and just about 5 miles west of me you are in analog. No digital available, straight up analog... granted analog gets you nothing but a crap load of static and more frustrations with not being able to make a call anyways....but it's still analog towers!

the audiovox 8900 does have e911 gps

Just got this note from LG regarding the car kit for the 5300.

"We do not offer any handfree car kit for the VX5300 phone. You may want to check with your service provider to see if they can assist you further with this issue."

Looks like I need to get the 6256i from Nokia and its car kit.