No More Roaming in Villanova, PA?

[TheBigCheese]

My daughter lives in Villanova, PA and coverage there is very poor despite Sprint's map so I usually get a roam triangle (on Verizon) which still provides a week signal. Anyway, yesterday, I phoned her from outside her house (b/c she doesn't have a lower level bell button) and I got a message from Verizon Wireless that I had to either charge the call (for $1.99/min) to my credit card or call collect. Pressing zero resulted in a hang up. When I called sprint from my home, they blew me off saying Sprint was probably down and claimed roaming doesn't work if Sprint is down (WTF?).

Has Sprint reduced or eliminated roaming in some places or has Verizon done something evil or what?

[n2jtx]

I cannot speak for the location you reported but one or two PRL's ago, they pulled Verizon roaming from Binghamton, NY.

[Airb330]

Wow, if this is true...then it's bad. Not that I ever roamed a lot, but it was nice. 1 bar on Verizon 1X sure beats 0 on Sprint. Never saw 5 bars on Verizon and 0 on Sprint, but it was a nice backup just in case. A lot of my family has Sprint in the philly area...I did hear a mention of 'it no longer works where it used to' maybe it was roaming.

[cricket101]

maybe sprints contract to use verizon towers expire? i know sprints be sending out diff PRL to remove roaming onto verizon is some areas...i see sprint hitting PA alot with no more roaming onto verizon

[macuser09]

maybe sprints contract to use verizon towers expire? i know sprints be sending out diff PRL to remove roaming onto verizon is some areas...i see sprint hitting PA alot with no more roaming onto verizon

I'm sure they still have the contract but they are getting rid of it in the PRL as a cost saving measure. I'm sure they are trying this out where they think they have a relatively strong network. Problem is 1900 can have issues getting deep inside buildings. Maybe they should have waited until 800 CDMA was deployed before shutting down the Verizon roaming in certain regions.

They may have negotiations over the contract in the near future and expect to pay more.

[Extraordinary]

$2 a minute?! c'mon, that's insane! Who is collecting all of that $$$

For $1 a day you can have UNLIMITED M2M calls on Verizon prepaid! $2 a day and it's unlimited to anyone! lol

[cricket101]

I'm sure they still have the contract but they are getting rid of it in the PRL as a cost saving measure. I'm sure they are trying this out where they think they have a relatively strong network. Problem is 1900 can have issues getting deep inside buildings. Maybe they should have waited until 800 CDMA was deployed before shutting down the Verizon roaming in certain regions.

They may have negotiations over the contract in the near future and expect to pay more.

true...maybe sprint is going to roll out NV for PA soon, another reason to pull roaming too..sprints pretty strong in my area so i dont roam anywhere besides a friend or two houses..only if they had nice data speeds!!