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Bert Hyman - 23 May 2006 15:25 GMT

Does the PRL you get when you update via *228 depend on your service
plan, or does everybody get the same one?

I'm a real low-useage customer and hang on to an old and cheap
"local" plan, and wonder how my phone knows when to show the roaming
indicator.

I assume that the billing system has the real scoop on how
to charge for a call and is the final arbiter in such things.

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George - 23 May 2006 15:44 GMT

> Does the PRL you get when you update via *228 depend on your service
> plan, or does everybody get the same one?
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> I assume that the billing system has the real scoop on how
> to charge for a call and is the final arbiter in such things.

Your plan has a different PRL. Thats how your phone knows what to do
with the roaming indicator.

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Isaiah Beard - 29 May 2006 18:08 GMT

> Does the PRL you get when you update via *228 depend on your service
> plan, or does everybody get the same one?

It depends on your service plan. Users of older America's Choice plans
(known as "AC I") get a different PRL than those of the current
America's Choice Plans ("AC II"). And those on the very old SingleRate
plans get different PRLs as well.

Additionally, the PRL is used on EVDO-enabled phones to indicate where
high-speed data service is available. So, those people with
EVDO-enabled phones additionally have a separate set of PRLs that they get.

> I'm a real low-useage customer and hang on to an old and cheap
> "local" plan, and wonder how my phone knows when to show the roaming
> indicator.

If you have an old, old, OLD phone, you may not have a PRL at all. You
might just have a home SID input into the phone, and anything beyond
that is "roaming."

But if your phone is more current, it will consult the PRL. I am not
sure if Verizon generates PRLs for those old local plans.

> I assume that the billing system has the real scoop on how
> to charge for a call and is the final arbiter in such things.

That's correct.

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