Motorola V710
When will Verizon's Analog be phased out?
When will Verizon phase out their analog service? I know that there is a future date set by the fcc, that says analog must be phased out.
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If VZW is doing the same as verizon, than when the analog towers go down, they are just not rpairing them.
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Local tower tech/HAM radio friend concurrs with your post. If it breaks or is hit by lightning, it's done.
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All I know is that I live in NYC and last weekend I went up to Kent CT in the Berkshire Mountains and without analog I wouldnt have had service. The strange thing is that if I called 611 or voicemail via *86 I got AT&T however I think I was still on the America Choice network.
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v710nyc said:
All I know is that I live in NYC and last weekend I went up to Kent CT in the Berkshire Mountains and without analog I wouldn't have had service. The strange thing is that if I called 611 or voicemail via *86 I got AT&T however I think I was still on the America Choice network.
You were in an extended network. Meaning when you called 611 you would call the carrier you were using cust service. With your america's choice plan, you have coverage up to 90% of the united states. Including that 90%, you will have coverage in these "extended networks". That means that although it's another carrier, verizon has signed roaming agreements to allow you to use their network as part of your america's cho...
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why in god would you want anolog fazed out. In low signal areas, areas with any sort of topography Analog might be the only signal you get b/c the phone transmits at .6 watts in Analog mode, as aposed to .2 watts for digital. Where I live I need my analog signal. Why do you think that LG made there latest 6100 trimode. Digital is still alive in rurual areas.
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sorry, but it's 330mw max output for any handheld cellular device. That's PEP, so the actual RF finals may get .6w put into them, but only .33w comes off the antenna.
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I was told by a verizon wireless store rep, that they are being told to discontinue use of analog towers by Dec 2005 because they interferred with emergency signals, but that could have been just a load of crap.
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Xtgirl said:
I was told by a verizon wireless store rep, that they are being told to discontinue use of analog towers by Dec 2005 because they interferred with emergency signals, but that could have been just a load of crap.
It's a load of crap.
There is a certain amount of shuffling that's been happening lately because emergency signals are being interfered with, but that's mostly Nextel's problem because they are interspersed throughout the emergency-signal bands.
The things to remember are:
1) Analog has pretty good middle-of-the-boonies performance, mostly at the expense of battery life, nuking-your-head, and overall signal performance. CDMA also, apparently, is good.
2) If you have your entir...
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Last I heard was they are required to keep analog through 2007. VZW is already phasing it out though, just not completely. They will switch over most of the spectrum of the tower to digital, leaving a small portion to analog. Users will get more and more busy signals.
Remember OnStar uses analog too (I think this year they just started using digital).
Remember OnStar uses analog too (I think this year they just started using digital).
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