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Re: Do Cell Phones Still Offer "A" and "B" Carriers?

John Levine (johnl@iecc.com)
13 May 2005 22:55:38 -0000

> Do today's cell phones have any option to do that?

None that I've seen. Typically the A carrier is TDMA or GSM, and the
B carrier is CDMA, so if you forced the phone to the other one it'd
have to fall back to analog and cellco's don't like that.

Ten years ago when I had an analog car phone I would force it to
switch all the time when I was on trips because I knew that the
non-default carrier had a better roaming deal.

R's,

John

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