 jmn1207Premium
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Ashburn, VA | Sprint Roaming Agreement? I wonder if this will have any impact on Sprint's excellent roaming agreement with Alltel and Verizon?
It's been nice having the EV-DO data available from all of Verizon's towers, as it increases my Blackberry coverage immensely. I know Sprint has an agreement with Alltel as well, but but for voice, data, and EV-DO. This was a 10 year agreement from 2006. Hopefully the agreement is binding for the duration of the term, even with this new merger. |
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| said by jmn1207:I wonder if this will have any impact on Sprint's excellent roaming agreement with Alltel and Verizon? It's been nice having the EV-DO data available from all of Verizon's towers, as it increases my Blackberry coverage immensely. I know Sprint has an agreement with Alltel as well, but but for voice, data, and EV-DO. This was a 10 year agreement from 2006. Hopefully the agreement is binding for the duration of the term, even with this new merger. what would be even better (though I doubt it'll happen) is if Verizon extended the EVDO roaming agreement to their entire network (ie: Alltel+Verizon) to Sprint once it's all said and done, and visa-versa--with that kind of set up Sprint and Verizon+Alltel could have loose partnership where-in they could co-operate to take on AT&T.
Doubt it'll happen though.
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jmn1207Premium
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Ashburn, VA | I believe Sprint already takes advantage of both Alltel and Verizon with EV-DO, as far as I know. Verizon can use Sprint and Sprint can use Verizon and Alltel. Obviously Verizon will be able to utilize Alltel as well, now. |
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| Sprint and Alltel have an EVDO roaming agreement but Verizon does not roam EVDO with anyone yet. The terms of the deal though specifically say that Verizon will honor all existing roaming agreements. I believe Sprint still has a 10 year agreement with Alltel. |
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jmn1207Premium
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Ashburn, VA
1 edit | said by xenophon:Sprint and Alltel have an EVDO roaming agreement but Verizon does not roam EVDO with anyone yet. The terms of the deal though specifically say that Verizon will honor all existing roaming agreements. I believe Sprint still has a 10 year agreement with Alltel. Ah, that is right. Sprint has a roaming agreement for 1x with Verizon. This is good, because Sprint's Power Vision is still accessible at 1x, not just EV-DO. Sprint has the same deal with US Cellular. Nice to know things will stay the same for the duration of my plan. |
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