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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Sprint PCS / December 2007Out of date PRL issue?
I'm considering going back to Sprint as they offer unique caller names for each phone on a family plan, so I've been carrying my old Sanyo 8100 with me that has a PRL from fall of '05. While driving up into Oklahoma on some back roads, I noticed it would drop into digital roaming mode. Most likely it was on USCellular's CDMA footprint in that area. My phone did the same annoying thing as it did years ago. It would drop into digital roam and when I attempted to place a call (knowing I should get a recording saying my phone wasn't valid), it would abort the call and retry it on Sprint with an excellent signal indication. Would an updated PRL have kept it on the Sprint network more often? [Posted in the Verizon NG as it concerns general PRL performance] On several side notes... * There were some dead spots an hour west and southwest of Oklahoma City where both my Cingular and Sprint phone would loose a signal at the same places. Kind of indicates carriers follow the same population densities for deployments. * While in the middle of a USCellular's footprint, my Sprint Sanyo would be in analog roam, but my USCellular phone would be full digital signal. And at the same spot, my Sprint data card was at full signal. > I'm considering going back to Sprint as they offer unique caller > names for each phone on a family plan, so I've been carrying my [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > would be in analog roam, but my USCellular phone would be full digital > signal. And at the same spot, my Sprint data card was at full signal. Perhaps if you updated to the current PRL instead of insisting on using one over two years old, your phone would work right...but then you'd have nothing to whine about in the NG... > Perhaps if you updated to the current PRL instead of insisting on using one > over two years old, your phone would work right...but then you'd have > nothing to whine about in the NG... Your response it totally irrelevant. To clarify it for you, I am not a current Sprint user (I used to be), therefore PRL can't be updated. There is no indication in my post about me "insisting" to not update the PRL. The jumping from digital roam to Sprint network was still happening with a current PRL, did you miss that? I was asking a technical question, there was no "whining". >> Perhaps if you updated to the current PRL instead of insisting on using >> one over two years old, your phone would work right...but then you'd have [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > a current PRL, did you miss that? > I was asking a technical question, there was no "whining". Perhaps if you'd post clear, concise queries instead of the convoluted, needlessly complex ones you favor...... > Perhaps if you'd post clear, concise queries instead of the convoluted, > needlessly complex ones you favor...... Usually when a poster is perceived to lack clear metrics, a good responder may ask for clarification or offer answers for different scenarios...rather half-assed proposing the question was convoluted and needlessly complex. You must be new to NG posting, right? |
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