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Analog?
So i see that analog roaming is added to the phone! so i see that verizon finally is admitting they don't have a perfect all digital network and then went back to the tri-band. Any opinions on if more phones will be going back to adding more analog?
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Verizon's network is not perfect. It does not cover every inch of the nation. No one does. The trouble with going all digital is that smaller roaming partners (like Alltel) still have analog towers. I would rather roam on a smaller carrier's analog towers than not have coverage at all in the middle of nowhere.
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Same here, analog is always nice to have when you're in the boonies.
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NOBODY has a perfect digital network. If you want to compare. I used Sprint and AT&T previously and they are both smaller than Verizon, with Sprint bringing up the rear. Nextel which my brother uses for his company phones is even smaller and they have NO analog capability.
I live in a rural area and travel cross country both flying and driving on a regular basis. As of right now nobody provides better coverage than Verizon. Because of the nature of radio signals there will always be issues with signal coverage because of terrain, tower location and/or height, other signals, metal, you name it.
By the way all phone transmissions are analog. It is the manner in which the data is carried over that analog signal that is digital. Thi...
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