burnout8488 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Of the big 4, who roams on who? Sprint will roam on Verizon. Will Verizon roam on Sprint if there is an area where Verizon is not covered but Sprint is? ATT on Tmo? Tmo on ATT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddaniels3968 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Sprint prefers us cellular in this area but if it's not available it will pick Verizon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tybo31316 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 In my area sprint has metropcs as 1st priority then VZW. Sent from my Nexus 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Sprint roams on only Verizon in South Dakota. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9690austin Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Central Illinois is U.S. Cellular first then VZW. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnout8488 Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 I guess I'm most curious on who the other networks will roam on rather than who sprint roams on. But its cool to see how it differs in different areas. In my hometown, we only have the big 4 networks. Would Verizon customers roam on Sprint? Are the devices capable of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiWavelength Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Who roams on who? Uh oh, did Citizens United make wireless operators "people," too? AJ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chico1983 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 In the Jacksonville NC area sprints roams on US Cellular then Verizon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paynefanbro Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 In NYC, Sprint roams on Verizon exclusively. MetroPCS has a presence here but my guess is that Sprint simply has greater signal propagation than Metro so I never encounter their signal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belusnecropolis Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I have encountered Alltel and Verizon here in Myrtle, guess they are kind of one in the same nao though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnout8488 Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 Will Verizon roam on Sprint if there is an area where Verizon is not covered but Sprint is? ATT on Tmo? Tmo on ATT? Sprint is pretty well covered in this thread now, what about the other carriers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caspar347 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I know this is still Sprint, but here it's Carolina West (full native bilateral roaming), then Alltel, then US Cellular, then Verizon. Edit: forgot to mention Cricket, I think they're after Alltel and before Verizon, probably same priority as USCC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynyrd65 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I've roamed on Cricket and US Cellular in Tulsa. I've roamed onto Nextech in Kansas and Colorado. While in Idaho I've roamed on Inland Cellular. On T-Mobile I've roamed onto Union Wireless, Viaero, CellularOne (Comnet and Chinook), Chinook (it actually said Chinook), and for what little they allow AT&T. Most of this roaming was HSPA but I imagine it was seriously throttled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshnys8913 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I turn roaming off lol (unless I know I am going to an area that I know ill need it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destroyallcubes Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 In East Texas I've had Sprint roam on metropcs, and Alltel. Had a T-Mobile Sim in my nexus 5 and said it was roaming on Chinook wireless,which is labeled as cellular one. That is sad because I'm getting coverage from a roaming partner the next county over, with a farther tower, than I am with T-Mobile with a closer tower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSlow Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Whom. (Sorry, had to.) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdk Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Whom. (Sorry, had to.) Just for you... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldblue910 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 In southeastern Kentucky I know that Verizon roams on Appalachian Wireless. I would assume Sprint does too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afazel Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I think the real question is, "Who roams on first?" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Kudo Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 In NYC, Sprint roams on Verizon exclusively. MetroPCS has a presence here but my guess is that Sprint simply has greater signal propagation than Metro so I never encounter their signal. Since MetroPCS never had a PCS CDMA network in NYC, Sprint would never roam on MetroPCS in NYC. Sprint could only roam on MetroPCS in Texas, Florida, Michigan, and California, where MetroPCS had PCS CDMA. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxsilver Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Sprint is pretty well covered in this thread now, what about the other carriers? T-Mobile roams on AT&T, but only in certain, specific, hand-picked areas (on a nearly tower by tower basis). It's usually only allowed in places *far* removed from T-Mobile's own native coverage. AT&T does not usually allow any roaming on T-Mobile, even when they have no native service and T-Mobile does. (This might be different for Business or M2M customers, or in some hand-picked markets -- I don't know about that specifically. But generally, normal lines do not allow roaming of any kind onto T-Mobile.) This isn't always true however. For instance, during Hurricane Sandy, AT&T and T-Mobile agreed to complete network sharing temporarily, so that you could switch between them at any time on any device - http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/31/att-and-t-mobile-temporarily-share-their-networks-in-nyc-nj/ But acts like that (while always 100% technologically available) are very rare to see in practice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiWavelength Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 ManBearPig roams the Earth alone. ManBearPig simply wants to get you. AJ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgore43 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 ManBearPig roams the Earth alone. ManBearPig simply wants to get you. AJ I'm glad someone believes uncle al now!He really is super duper serial. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunkyrice Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Since MetroPCS never had a PCS CDMA network in NYC, Sprint would never roam on MetroPCS in NYC. Sprint could only roam on MetroPCS in Texas, Florida, Michigan, and California, where MetroPCS had PCS CDMA. This explains why I get connected to MetroPCS around Los Angeles at times. I thought their CDMA network was dismantled already after the T-Mobile merger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas L. Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Sprint roams on Cricket a lot in the central valley (California). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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