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Ray Dios - 26 Aug 2003 01:55 GMT

While fishing in Davie (Ft. Laud., FL) I decided to switch to analog to check the coverage.
After the switch took effect, I noticed that I was not on the extended network analog as usual, but on another analog system. Thinking that this must be Cingular, I dialed 611 and to my surprise, The recording said "Welcome to Verizon Wireless". I looked at the phone to make sure it didn't switch back to digital and it had not. I turned my head to verify analog "static" and it was indeed an analog signal. I thought VZW was exclusively digital in Florida. Anyone know about this?

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- 26 Aug 2003 02:07 GMT

On 8/25/03 8:55 PM, in article
Sdy2b.114891$3o3.8032185@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net, "Ray Dios"
<radionet@att.net> wrote:

> While fishing in Davie (Ft. Laud., FL) I decided to switch to analog to check
> the coverage.
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> Anyone know about this?
>

Hmmm that IS strange. As far as I know Verizon has no analog network in
Florida at all....here in Central Florida if one puts the phone in analog
mode one gets ATT on analog. One also would pay roaming charges if one does
that on a Local Plan...

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Bill Roland - 26 Aug 2003 02:35 GMT

I was recently down south towards Leesburg (north of Orlando) and my Alltel analog only phone roamed over to AT&T's Analog System (which sounded really good, by the way), but dialing 611 patched me into Alltel's 611.
While fishing in Davie (Ft. Laud., FL) I decided to switch to analog to check the coverage.
After the switch took effect, I noticed that I was not on the extended network analog as usual, but on another analog system. Thinking that this must be Cingular, I dialed 611 and to my surprise, The recording said "Welcome to Verizon Wireless". I looked at the phone to make sure it didn't switch back to digital and it had not. I turned my head to verify analog "static" and it was indeed an analog signal. I thought VZW was exclusively digital in Florida. Anyone know about this?

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Larry W4CSC - 26 Aug 2003 03:00 GMT

Ray, please turn off the MIME format in your news reader.
Thanks......

I've taken two trips to Florida on AMPS with my trusty bagphone and
have gotten lots of 800 Mhz Verizon service all along the East Coast
retrieving sailboats back to Charleston. Some of the systems, I'm
sure, FORWARD your 611 calls to a Verizon TS center, too. You might
not have been on a VZW system for that reason.

When I'm 50-100 miles offshore in the Atlantic, with the beam antenna
up the mast on a halyard pointed towards shore, I don't care WHO the
carrier is...just "Will it call?"..............AMPS will running 24W
ERP at 50' ASL....(c;

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Larry W4CSC

Maybe we could get the power grid fixed if every politician
regulating the power companies wasn't on their payrolls.

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CharlesH - 26 Aug 2003 18:10 GMT

Concerning dialing 611 in Florida and getting analog VZW, yes, some
companies will forward 611 calls to the home provider of the roaming phone.
Really a bummer if you are trying to contact the actual provider to
report a system problem of some kind. Alltel, who provides service in
Florida, is one of these. It seems that the best way to determine who you
are roaming on is to dial some invalid number and listen to the "your
call cannot be completed" intercept message, which will name the company.

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Steven J Sobol - 26 Aug 2003 18:43 GMT

> Concerning dialing 611 in Florida and getting analog VZW, yes, some
> companies will forward 611 calls to the home provider of the roaming phone.
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> are roaming on is to dial some invalid number and listen to the "your
> call cannot be completed" intercept message, which will name the company.

With Alltel, you can generally dial 800-Alltel-X where X is a digit between
1 and 9, and get Alltel. 800-Alltel-1, 800-Alltel-9 and 800-Alltel-3 are
definitely theirs. And I believe at least one of those numbers will get you
to their cellular Customer Care. Whether or not you can report a problem, as
a non-customer, I don't know.

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3M TA3 - 31 Aug 2003 01:00 GMT

Somewhere about Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:55:14 GMT, someone called "Ray Dios"
<radionet@att.net> said:

>While fishing in Davie (Ft. Laud., FL) I decided to switch to analog to check the coverage.
>After the switch took effect, I noticed that I was not on the extended network analog as usual, but on another analog system. Thinking that this must be Cingular, I dialed 611 and to my surprise, The recording said "Welcome to Verizon Wireless". I looked at the phone to make sure it didn't switch back to digital and it had not. I turned my head to verify analog "static" and it was indeed an analog signal. I thought VZW was exclusively digital in Florida. Anyone know about this?

I had some roaming/analog issues in North Lauderdale. I took it to the Verizon
store in Ft. Lauderdale (on Federal near Sunrise) and the guy adjusted some
settings on my T720. But yes I have had an analog signal in S. Fl.

-3M TA3

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