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Norm - 30 Jun 2006 16:16 GMT

I will be visiting the cities of Seward, Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan and
Vancouver, BC.

Which Alaska cities will I find sprint coverage?

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Frank Harris - 01 Jul 2006 05:53 GMT

Norm -
Juneau - you might find native Sprint coverage here, as predicted in
this newsgroup in 2004 by Andrew Shepherd.

Seward, Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan - according to what I've read, your
phone will roam on the coverage of ACS Wireless. Make sure your phone
has a current PRL. If your plan includes roaming, then these minutes
are included.

Vancouver, BC - based on personal experience your phone will roam on the
coverages of Telus and Bell Canada. Inbound and outbound calls to/from
the US or Canada are 65 cents per minute. Make sure your phone has a
current PRL.

To get your phone's PRL updated, take it to a Sprint store, or call *2 ,
ask for Tech Support, and ask them to flag your phone for a PRL update.
Then you call *2 a second time and wait a minute while the phone gets
updated.

Make sure to set your phone's roaming menu on 'Automatic'. If it's set
to 'Sprint only' it'll never roam.

> I will be visiting the cities of Seward, Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan and
> Vancouver, BC.
>
> Which Alaska cities will I find sprint coverage?

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Mij Adyaw - 01 Jul 2006 06:26 GMT

You forgot to mention a very important aspect: Is all of the roaming
coverage digital?

> Norm -
> Juneau - you might find native Sprint coverage here, as predicted in this
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>> Which Alaska cities will I find sprint coverage?

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Frank Harris - 01 Jul 2006 20:07 GMT

Mij -
Go to http://www.acsalaska.com
Click thru: Personal | Wireless | Resources | Wireless Coverage Maps
If you need a Zip code, you can use 99801 for Juneau.

The 2005 end-of-year map shows mostly analog except in a few places.
The 2006 mid-year plan map shows nearly all CDMA digital coverage.
How much of the plan has ACS achieved? I don't know.

You might also find CDMA roaming coverage in Seward and Juneau from
Alaska Digitel. http://www.alaskadigitel.com/coverage.htm

Sprint's PRL puts Alaska Digitel at a higher priority than ACSAlaska.
http://www.rainyday.ca/~dialtone/sprint/sp_10033.htm
search for the word 'alaska'

> You forgot to mention a very important aspect: Is all of the roaming
> coverage digital?
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>>> Which Alaska cities will I find sprint coverage?

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Jerome Zelinske - 02 Jul 2006 14:16 GMT

On my last prl update, it seems the update changed my setting from
Sprint PCS only to automatic. I was slightly upset that I had to go to
all three of our phones again to set it back.

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SMS - 03 Jul 2006 17:44 GMT

> I will be visiting the cities of Seward, Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan and
> Vancouver, BC.
>
> Which Alaska cities will I find sprint coverage?

You should have digital coverage in all those places, with analog
roaming in between. Sounds like you're going on a cruise. You may get
analog coverage pretty far out from the ports.

Just be glad you don't have GSM! When I was in Alaska three years ago
there was no GSM yet, though now some carriers are converting from TDMA
to GSM.

AMPS is really the king of coverage in Alaska.

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Frank Harris - 06 Jul 2006 07:01 GMT

More Alaska coverage info in this thread:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=834156

> I will be visiting the cities of Seward, Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan and
> Vancouver, BC.
>
> Which Alaska cities will I find sprint coverage?

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Hemant Shah - 25 Jul 2006 17:33 GMT

> I will be visiting the cities of Seward, Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan and
> Vancouver, BC.
>
> Which Alaska cities will I find sprint coverage?

I just cam back from Alaska Cruise. I did not get chance to check coverage in
Anchorage as I boarded the bus for Whittier straight from the airport.

I have Treo 650.

In Skagway phone was on digital roam.
In Juneau I had Sprint coverage in the ship and in town.
In Ketchikan phone was on digital roam.
In Vancouver phone was on digital roam.

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