Comments on: How does No. 2 wireless carrier Verizon increase its user base – buy them from Rural Cellular’s Unicel http://www.intomobile.com/2007/07/30/how-does-no-2-wireless-carrier-verizon-increase-its-user-base-buy-them-from-rural-cellulars-unicel.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:05:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Brandon http://www.intomobile.com/2007/07/30/how-does-no-2-wireless-carrier-verizon-increase-its-user-base-buy-them-from-rural-cellulars-unicel.html/comment-page-1/#comment-172553 Brandon Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:05:50 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2007/07/30/how-does-no-2-wireless-carrier-verizon-increase-its-user-base-buy-them-from-rural-cellulars-unicel.html#comment-172553 I pesonally think this is lame.. i was gonna get a new phone for my birthday and now im so mixed up ive gotta wait 3 months for them to change coverage so i dont end up paying 300 dollars for a chunk of plastic that doesn't do anything usefull in vermont... I pesonally think this is lame.. i was gonna get a new phone for my birthday and now im so mixed up ive gotta wait 3 months for them to change coverage so i dont end up paying 300 dollars for a chunk of plastic that doesn’t do anything usefull in vermont…

]]> By: Morgan Aldridge http://www.intomobile.com/2007/07/30/how-does-no-2-wireless-carrier-verizon-increase-its-user-base-buy-them-from-rural-cellulars-unicel.html/comment-page-1/#comment-26180 Morgan Aldridge Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:55:20 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2007/07/30/how-does-no-2-wireless-carrier-verizon-increase-its-user-base-buy-them-from-rural-cellulars-unicel.html#comment-26180 While this will increase rural coverage for Verizon Wireless much like AT&T's purchase of Dobson (i.e. Cellular One), this will have some major implications in Vermont: the only two real players are Verizon Wireless and Unicel. So all those Unicel customers that just got switched from CDMA to GSM a couple years ago will have to switch back over to CDMA. Those who want GSM-only phones like iPhones or Treo 680s will be SOL within a couple years because they won't be able to get SIMs for Vermont. See: http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=148926 http://makkintosshu.dyndns.org/journal/say-goodbye-to-the-iphone-in-vermont And you know that AT&T's not going to let residents of Vermont keep using their purchased-out-of-state contracts much longer as they're already always roaming. While this will increase rural coverage for Verizon Wireless much like AT&T’s purchase of Dobson (i.e. Cellular One), this will have some major implications in Vermont: the only two real players are Verizon Wireless and Unicel. So all those Unicel customers that just got switched from CDMA to GSM a couple years ago will have to switch back over to CDMA. Those who want GSM-only phones like iPhones or Treo 680s will be SOL within a couple years because they won’t be able to get SIMs for Vermont.

See:

http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=148926
http://makkintosshu.dyndns.org/journal/say-goodbye-to-the-iphone-in-vermont

And you know that AT&T’s not going to let residents of Vermont keep using their purchased-out-of-state contracts much longer as they’re already always roaming.

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