no cdma and gsm can not co-locate nor be remotly close.

Native I mean was Verizon in your area from the start of verizon or did they build into it. If its Chicago they either built into it or acquired it!

Ah ok. Thanks for the help. One more question though, if VZW either built into or acquired a tower, then would their name be on the tower still? Or would it be the name of the company that they acquired it from? (similar to how in Illinois, Illinois Bell is still the legal name of the landline company even though it's d/b/a AT&T Illinois)?
thanks!

umm good question I believe it is registered yearly so it would be the owner currently. Landline numbers were purchased when they were a bell so it stays in their name.

But most towers that cell carriers use are not even cell carrier towers.

ah ok cool. Thanks for the help!

VZW also goes by Cellco on legal filings, so you might see see that as well... You still might see Primco as that was a company vzw swallowed up in the MidWest.

Ah yes; I believe I do remember seeing Cellco somewhere. But what about American Tower or Spectrasite? Does VZW use their towers also?

shadowstar said:
Ah yes; I believe I do remember seeing Cellco somewhere. But what about American Tower or Spectrasite? Does VZW use their towers also?

VZW uses many companies. An example would be that Chicago Tower Leasing Corporation is one company that VZW leases tower space from. They have a 500' tower near my home, and I believe VZW's antenna is on the 200' portion of the tower. If VZW wanted to, they could have gone higher up, but it seems like 150' - 200' seems to be the average height for cellphone antennas.

As for the replier before this one mentioning Primeco; VZW did not acquire Primeco in Chicago & Northern Indiana. That was divested in a 1999 buyout when GTE acquired Ameritech Cellu...
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Ah wow - good information! Thanks!
Also, since you're from the Chicago area, whenever someone calls you, does your bill display your phone's location as "Summit, IL"? Whenever I travel to the Chicago area, it either says "Summit, IL" or something like "ChicagoZonex" However, I'm always on the north side - never on the south. Does that indicate the tower location that I was connected to or the Mobile Telephone Switching Office?

Thanks!

It depends how the tower situation is set up because sometimes these carriers sell the towers back and then the holding company that is holding that lease would be on it, however, if it is owned and not leased by Verizon it should have their information on that cell site.

“no cdma and gsm can not co-locate nor be remotly close.” I don’t believe he mentioned GSM.

my point since you completly missed it was that he asked if other cdma interferes if co located and I was pointing out only gsm interferes with cdma and vice vs! Got it now?

shadowstar said:
Hey Wombough, thanks for the reply. When you mean native, do you mean like the handset would display Verizon Wireless? I'm currently in the Chicago area, so I do have access to Verizon in both the Voice and 3G network. But if Verizon shared a cell tower with Sprint, for example, wouldn't that cause any interference with the two signals - since both are CDMA and using 800/1900 signals?

Thanks!

PCS signals have little to no interference with other radios that are nearby. This is why the big four are all moving in that direction for voice.

It depends but you could be using a carrier but even sometimes in their own native coverage you are roaming in which you might still display the company but if you dialed 611, it would say a different one.
“But if Verizon shared a cell tower with Sprint, for example, wouldn't that cause any interference with the two signals - since both are CDMA and using 800/1900 signals?” There would be some interference issues but they have protections against those kind of issues and many companies are on the same towers.

611 no longer tells you who you are roaming on! They all route the call to your carrier!

Strange. I sometimes get that message.

with sprint I got it if you were on a local carrier or something with alltel all my calls are routed to alltel!