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MetroPCS reception out of my State?
Where's the power button?
Bought MetroPCS yesterday. Taking trip from Florida to Virginia soon... Heard they have NO RECEPTION outside FL...???
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Who told you that? Go to their website and look at the coverage map.
My screen is bigger than yours
coverage map is a complete lie, there's a 2 hour long stretch of I-75 in southern Kentucky with NO metro coverage, even though BOTH maps say they cover it. Lol @ metro. Going to fill out an FCC complaint about it but haven't gotten around to it. Oh and yes I update PRL.Originally Posted by wagonis
SO I understand OP's interest in FIRST HAND experience lol.
Radiation is good
I go up and down the East all the time with no problems.
Yes, just make sure you update the PRL via *228 before leaving. Try to keep your phone on MetroPCS only too, instead of Automatic. Automatic is for users trying to use SMS in the Verizon areas where there is no coverage. MetroPCS only with the correct PRL will pick up Metro and any of its roaming providers.
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i actually keep mine on automatic with no issues, but not everyone has my luck... try both and see what works best for you. if you get into a verizon only area then text will be free, but you may want to consider adding the $5/month bundle of 30 minutes to use while roaming just in case an emergency happens...
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Last November (2010) Metro signed an anonymous nationwide roaming agreement with a major national CDMA carrier (cough * Sprint * cough). But speeds are capped at what Metro has on their own network (avg. 100 kps) -- not the true "3G" speeds that Sprint/Virgin/Cricket customers enjoy on Sprint's CDMA network. However, for voice calls data speed is not important. This voice/100kps nationwide roaming does not cost any extra. It's how Metro brags they have "nationwide coverage"!
Here's the press release: http://goo.gl/dZgcL (November 4, 2010) -- but note they never mention the name "Sprint". However, if you look at Sprint's "nationwide" coverage map it exactly matches Metro's.
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Also, to supplement that, Metro has a "Travel Talk" roaming agreement with Verizon. But you cannot make any outgoing calls on that network -- you can receive incoming calls for $0.19 per minute. (At least I have not been able to make any outgoing calls on Travel Talk...) But to use Travel Talk you have to already have money in your MetroConnect account. I keep like $10 in there for that purpose, for when traveling out of state. You can also send/receive texts via this connection.
Between Sprint's roaming and Verizon's roaming on Metro, you should be truly covered. Only problem with Verizon's roaming is making outgoing calls -- at least for me.
Last edited by ChazzMatt; 07-10-2011 at 12:25 PM.
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I've climbed a cellphone tower
OK, the map is not 100% accurate so I'll give you that, but as the OP said:
The map will show him that the statement made to him was incorrect. True Metro is not perfect, but obviously they have reception outside of Florida.
To the OP: I travel once to twice per month outside of Florida for work and no matter where I have a layover as well as when I get to California, I never lose signal...of course with the exception of the time spent at 30,000 feet.
My screen is bigger than yours
Perhaps cajunsongs has a misunderstanding of how to get the current preferred roaming list (3019 on my Samsung R910 Indulge), plus how to switch from "MetroPCS only" (which includes Sprint/Cricket/nTelos/etc) versus "automatic".OK, the map is not 100% accurate so I'll give you that, but as the OP said:
The map will show him that the statement made to him was incorrect. True Metro is not perfect, but obviously they have reception outside of Florida.
To the OP: I travel once to twice per month outside of Florida for work and no matter where I have a layover as well as when I get to California, I never lose signal...of course with the exception of the time spent at 30,000 feet.
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