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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Verizon / February 2005Change Phone Area Code To Improve Reception; Newbie Question ?
Hello: Real newbie with this cel phone technology. Have Verizon, and am in the metro west Boston area. Other than how you are billed, and expenses, am I correct in that your cel phone number really bears no relationship to whether you get good reception, or not, in an area that is perhaps marginal ? I guess I'm asking if that you are near a tower, any tower, (even if not near your "home-base number") you will get good reception probably, and if not near, you may not. Is this basically true true, and how things work ? Have moved from old house to which area code the phone was originally pegged to a new place about 50 miles away. Othwer than the plan and billing implications, any technical reasons to change the number and area code for the phone ? Thanks, Bob > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Thanks, > Bob Yes. But you should use the *228 thing every so often to tell your phone and / or the system about new / improved towers. LB >> Hello: >> [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Yes. NO. There is no technical reason other than plan and billing implications to change your number. -Quick > >> Hello: > >> [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > -Quick What we have here is a failure to communicate <BG> My Yes was answering the OP question "Am I correct..." Your No agrees <VBG> LB >>>> Hello: >>>> [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > LB The OP actually asked 3 questions - The answer to the first 2 is YES, The answer to the last question is NO. Quick's no answer was followed by the context of the question he answerer. > >>>> Hello: > >>>> [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > answer to the last question is NO. Quick's no answer was followed by the > context of the question he answerer. 'nuff said:-)) LB >Othwer than the plan and billing implications, >any technical reasons to change the number and area code for the phone ? If you use your phone for making calls only, probably not. But if you expect to receive calls, the cost to a POTS caller might be affected (local vs. regional vs. Long Distance) by any difference in the AC or exchange used. Depends on the local carrier - here in TN, Sprint United started charging long distance to all calls to cell phones. Needless to say, we use the house phone even less than before. Because most phone companies change higher for in state (or lata) calls, it might be cheaper to call a number assigned to a different area code or exchange. > If you use your phone for making calls only, probably not. But if you > expect to receive calls, the cost to a POTS caller might be affected > (local vs. regional vs. Long Distance) by any difference in the AC or > exchange used. >Depends on the local carrier - here in TN, Sprint United started charging >long distance to all calls to cell phones. Sorry, you need to tell the total true story and not your version of it. Sprint United does not charge long distance to *all* cell phones only cell phones with prefixes that are not local to the land line making the call. If the land line is calling to a number that is based out of the same local calling area they will not incur long distance toll charges. If there are no cell phone providers in that area then they'll have to pay long distance toll too. It is not true though that the company will charge long distance to all cell phones. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It may be different for you in Washington state - but in the TN region covered by Sprint United for local service, all cell prefixes are now considered out of the local area, so all calls to all cell prefixes are LD. Walk into any cell store here (in TN), buy a phone and call it from your home (~2 miles from the store and in the same zip code) - you'll be charged LD for the call. I can call the next town free of charge... but I can't call myself. Sprint United in this area made the decision to bill all cell prefixes as LD either at the same time number portability went into effect or within a few months from that date, using number portability as the reason. Calls from my home to my cell (sitting beside me in my home) were previously free and are now billed my LD rate. (I used to use call forwarding to pass all calls to the cell but turned it off because of the LD fees.) >>Depends on the local carrier - here in TN, Sprint United started charging >>long distance to all calls to cell phones. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Maybe you could get a second land line and then port the number to your wireless. >It may be different for you in Washington state - but in the TN region >covered by Sprint United for local service, all cell prefixes are now [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >now billed my LD rate. (I used to use call forwarding to pass all calls to >the cell but turned it off because of the LD fees.) Well, that's only if there are no cell phone providers who have local numbers for that area. If that's the case then yes all calls people make from land lines will incur toll charges. If it's any other way the Tennessee public utilities/service commission needs to know about it since that's not legal. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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