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Hello:

Relatively new user.

Would like to understand exactly what happens when I do the *228, Option 2
("upgrade your preferred roaming list" ) thing.

Is it that it then allows the cel phone to utilize any possible new towers
throughout the U.S. that may have been put up after your phone was initially
configured ?

Hard to believe that the phone can't use new towers without this
re-configuring, but... ?

Am I understanding this correctly ?

Or, are other items changed also ?

Thanks,
Bob

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"Robert11" <rgsros@notme.com> wrote in message
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> Hello:
>
> Relatively new user.
>
> Would like to understand exactly what happens when I do the *228, Option
> 2
> ("upgrade your preferred roaming list" ) thing.
>
> Is it that it then allows the cel phone to utilize any possible new towers
> throughout the U.S. that may have been put up after your phone was
> initially
> configured ?
>
> Hard to believe that the phone can't use new towers without this
> re-configuring, but... ?
>
> Am I understanding this correctly ?
>
> Or, are other items changed also ?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob


When you are away from your immediate home area, it tells your phone which
roaming signals/systems to ignore, which to accept a connection to/from--
and if more than one is present, which is the primary one.

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Expert Witness wrote:
> "Robert11" <rgsros@notme.com> wrote in message
> news:n9WdnXmudbvFg3vfRVn-vg@comcast.com...
>> Hello:
>>
>> Relatively new user.
>>
>> Would like to understand exactly what happens when I do
>> the *228, Option 2
>> ("upgrade your preferred roaming list" ) thing.
>>
>> Is it that it then allows the cel phone to utilize any
>> possible new towers throughout the U.S. that may have
>> been put up after your phone was initially
>> configured ?
>>
>> Hard to believe that the phone can't use new towers
>> without this re-configuring, but... ?
>>
>> Am I understanding this correctly ?
>>
>> Or, are other items changed also ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>
>
> When you are away from your immediate home area, it tells
> your phone which roaming signals/systems to ignore, which
> to accept a connection to/from-- and if more than one is
> present, which is the primary one.

The PRL is an ordered list of signals to use. It is always used
(with the exception of when you dial 911). Doesn't matter where
you are, home area or not.

-Quick

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If I ever had any doubts before, I don't now--I updated my aunt's phone from
Myrtle Beach where she had a solid roam, analog signal (hadn't updated her
PRL EVER in 2 years of using that particular phone). Long story short, I am
now a hero because she immediately got a full bar (I know the bars don't
matter--but you know what I mean) D signal and wasn't roaming at all! I
LOVE it when things work out .


"Quick" <quick7135-news@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Expert Witness wrote:
>> "Robert11" <rgsros@notme.com> wrote in message
>> news:n9WdnXmudbvFg3vfRVn-vg@comcast.com...
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> Relatively new user.
>>>
>>> Would like to understand exactly what happens when I do
>>> the *228, Option 2
>>> ("upgrade your preferred roaming list" ) thing.
>>>
>>> Is it that it then allows the cel phone to utilize any
>>> possible new towers throughout the U.S. that may have
>>> been put up after your phone was initially
>>> configured ?
>>>
>>> Hard to believe that the phone can't use new towers
>>> without this re-configuring, but... ?
>>>
>>> Am I understanding this correctly ?
>>>
>>> Or, are other items changed also ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bob
>>
>>
>> When you are away from your immediate home area, it tells
>> your phone which roaming signals/systems to ignore, which
>> to accept a connection to/from-- and if more than one is
>> present, which is the primary one.
>
> The PRL is an ordered list of signals to use. It is always used
> (with the exception of when you dial 911). Doesn't matter where
> you are, home area or not.
>
> -Quick
>
>

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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:28:21 -0400, "Robert11" <rgsros@notme.com> chose to
add this to the great equation of life, the universe, and everything:

>Hello:
>
>Relatively new user.
>
>Would like to understand exactly what happens when I do the *228, Option 2
>("upgrade your preferred roaming list" ) thing.
>
>Is it that it then allows the cel phone to utilize any possible new towers
>throughout the U.S. that may have been put up after your phone was initially
>configured ?
>
>Hard to believe that the phone can't use new towers without this
>re-configuring, but... ?
>
>Am I understanding this correctly ?

Not quite. Each carrier groups all of its towers in a given area into a
code known as an SID. All the towers identify themselves to your phone with
this number. The PRL in your phone is a list of which SIDs can be used and
in which order to prefer them. VZW fairly often brings new territory of its
own on line, reaches new agreements with other carriers, and lets old
agreements expire and fall by the wayside. All of this affects the PRL, so
they have to issue new ones. Right now, they are in about the longest
period I can remember without a new PRL, two or three months.

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