Rumor Mill
verizon losing towers?
If your in northern cali, I mean anything from santa rosa up and sacramento up, It will be intresting. In mendocino county and up, Verizon has such horrible coverage I dont even know if you will tell the diffrence. In sac, yolo, humbolt and up to redding, I dont think you will tell the diffrence either. Possibly when you leave redding and heads towards oregon.
Verizon and Alltel have a major roaming aggrement that will expire in the 4th quater of 2007. And to be really honest, since Alltel bought Western Wireless, Verizon Wireless will get hurt the most. So when they loose that roaming aggrement, they will only have about 1/3 of the network size as they do now. Tip, look at the prepaid maps for Verizon and Alltel. The red on the verizon wireless is their native network (which is all they will have after the aggrement is up) If you can't find the one with the red color then e-mailook at the links at the bottom of the page. The dark blue on the Alltel Prepaid is their native. Then compare those two to their current national maps. You will see what I am talking about
Verizon Prep...
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Verizon Prepaid Map:
http://cache.vzw.com/images_b2c/maps/national/prepay ... »
Verizon with roaming:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/coveragemap ... »
Alltel Prepaid Map:
http://www.alltel.com/personal/wireless/images/u_pre ... »
Alltel with roaming:
http://www.alltel.com/personal/wireless/images/nat_f ... »
And I'm thinking it's because of the analog going away too. However, I'm betting in the next year, they are going to be converting a lot of towers to digital.
And Verizon isn't the only one affected by this. The analog thing is FCC regulated.