Verizons future?
I'm sort of looking into switching to Verizon, but a few questions lay in my mind.
-The main one being that, Verizon doesn't seem to ever have new phones. Its as if they don't want to support the newest technology, cant, or aim for a less-tech-crazed audience. I'm a power user and want the latest and greatest even if somewhat user unfriendly. Is this just not verizons strategy? Will they ever support more cutting edge hardware that other companies seem to excel in? (ex: TREO)
A related question is: do phones that use the same network technology as verizon (or other companies) WORK on their networks, even if they don't SUPPORT it?
-Why no J2ME @ Verizon? I'm going to learn it in school soon, want to use it, and it sounds more open sta...
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-The main one being that, Verizon doesn't seem to ever have new phones. Its as if they don't want to support the newest technology, cant, or aim for a less-tech-crazed audience. I'm a power user and want the latest and greatest even if somewhat user unfriendly. Is this just not verizons strategy? Will they ever support more cutting edge hardware that other companies seem to excel in? (ex: TREO)
A related question is: do phones that use the same network technology as verizon (or other companies) WORK on their networks, even if they don't SUPPORT it?
-Why no J2ME @ Verizon? I'm going to learn it in school soon, want to use it, and it sounds more open sta...
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Ah the phone issue. High end users should not have too hard a time with the Blackberry (color screen coming soon) that kinda rivals the Trio or the Samsung I500 even the Kyocera 7135.
Equipment from another carrier that uses similar technology will pick up a signal and thats the only guarantee. I discourage this route because if it has not been tested and proven to work with our network you WILL have a frustrating experience.
J2ME is for GSM networks, BREW for CDMA. Cant explain it better.
Try before you buy. You will never know exactly where sites are. Try www.berkana.com might help a bit but in general, they consider it proprietary info.
Equipment from another carrier that uses similar technology will pick up a signal and thats the only guarantee. I discourage this route because if it has not been tested and proven to work with our network you WILL have a frustrating experience.
J2ME is for GSM networks, BREW for CDMA. Cant explain it better.
Try before you buy. You will never know exactly where sites are. Try www.berkana.com might help a bit but in general, they consider it proprietary info.
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skadood1 said:
-From my knowledge, no phone company puts out DETAILED maps of cell sites. As in, where their cell sites are located on a map. To me, a wireless provider cant prove to me their coverage unless i can see the closest sites to where i frequent. I'm sure they have detailed GIS's intra-company...bastids. Any tech's know if this exists and how consumers can get ahold of such info?
Verizon has plans to make a consumer version of thier GIS tool available to customers via the website in the near future. At least that is what they told me.
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skadood1
I don't know about Verizon but if you go to the below link you can see Sprint PCS's tower maps.
http://www.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/coverage/towermaps ... »
I don't know about Verizon but if you go to the below link you can see Sprint PCS's tower maps.
http://www.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/coverage/towermaps ... »
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No offence to you, but that my IMO is pointless, and I am very unhappy with Sprint for even offering it. It shows no general location of signal from the towers. I wanna see a map like Sprint GIS tool their employees use (I know, cuz I used to be one) which was a color code signal map, yellow meant good signal, green good, red bad, or fringe area. kinda look like a topigraphical map of a terrain were the different colors measured the level of height, but insteasd this one used color to measure the strenth of the signals.
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just wondering who do you work for today? I work for a clec and I am always on the lookout for the next line of work.
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We, as technicians, USED to have the ability to put in someone's physical address and find what coverage they have exactly (not a "forecasted" map), and we used to see EXACTLY where the cell sites are in that given area.
The reason I say used to, is because 2 months ago, Verizon changed their intranet and now the maps are only updated every quarter, instead of every two weeks.
I can tell you that you can call customer service, or visit a technician, and Verizon is the ONLY company (that I know of) that will send a technician to your area (Pinpointed to an address, cross-street, etc.) and run diagnostic tests on that location to see exactly what kind of signal is being received or for any issues.
I've used this Network Trouble Ticket...
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The reason I say used to, is because 2 months ago, Verizon changed their intranet and now the maps are only updated every quarter, instead of every two weeks.
I can tell you that you can call customer service, or visit a technician, and Verizon is the ONLY company (that I know of) that will send a technician to your area (Pinpointed to an address, cross-street, etc.) and run diagnostic tests on that location to see exactly what kind of signal is being received or for any issues.
I've used this Network Trouble Ticket...
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skadood1
I don't know about Verizon but if you go to the below link you can see Sprint PCS's tower maps.
http://www.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/coverage/towermaps ... »
I don't know about Verizon but if you go to the below link you can see Sprint PCS's tower maps.
http://www.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/coverage/towermaps ... »
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