Cricket and Portland, OR

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I know this has been in the works for a while, and have seen that they are sharing tower space with VZ and Sprint here in town.

The weird thing is that they are not covering Vancouver as it stanRAB now. Those of you who live in this area know that covering Vancouver is pretty essential in hitting our metro area. Since it is another state and a whole other set of rules, Leap neeRAB to either use their Spokane, WA market to build new capacity here in Vancouver or let it go and risk alienating a lot of the citizens that live here.

There is a giant market in the 16-25 and the 55+ markets for cells and Cricket never has quite figured that out in my opinion. This will either fly high, or flop right on its *** a year in. They also have a huge advantage with government plans over their competitors and should begin to hit the cities administration to build buzz. It ain't iDen, but its stable and its unlimited and local only, a big plus for govt.

Thoughts... Anyone else know release dates? I see they are ramping up for Q4.
 
Well I know they are going to extend coverage down to Eugene. You can typically find permits for all land uses in Oregon and Washington online though and Vancouver mentions nothing of that.

If the spectrum LCW bought is for the Portland area then it would not cover Vancouver unless their sites were repeating which would cause some latency. I know its possible to do with CDMA, so my guess would be they may be letting users roam in Vancouver onto Verizon or Sprint for now and then getting their own stuff built out later. Either that or bringing the cell traffic somehow across the river into Portland.
 
Completely incorrect! The PCS C5-block license for BTA358 that LCW won at FCC auction 58 does include several WA counties, among them Clark county and the city of Vancouver. This whole thread is a non-issue. The Portland license includes Vancouver and the Portland buildout will of course also include Vancouver. End of story.
 
end of story? cricket does not always build-out their entire license so we shall see what is covered and what is not. only way to know is when cricket launches there. however if it is as important as you say it is then it will probably be covered.
 
XFF makes a pretty good point, but the site I was looking at on the FCC for coverage didn't include Washington at all. My fault on this, I would love a link too if you had one.

And simple is right, Cricket almost never covers their whole footprint. Plus CLEC deals work differently in Washington than Oregon so I'm curious on what they do.
 
I am trying to load cricket settings into my nokia 3285i, I have the following but it still will not find service
sid= 4945
nid= 65535
 
its inactive, just want to check out the coverage, here is what i have loaded:
sid= 4945
nid= 65535
Primary CDMA channel A = 283
Secondary CDMA channel A =691
Primary CDMA channel B = 384
Secondary CDMA channel B= 777

Country Code = 310

Perfered SID= 4945
Forbidden sid= empty

Network code= 0

anyone know What am i missing?
Thanks, Joe
 
I found this info, but do not know what goes under what in the phones menu:

Priority 1
04945 PCS -- Cricket Communications
SCAN 1125C 1150C 1175C
BTA358C Portland, OR
 
Like simple3 said, you need the correct PRL for your hanRABet to find and register with the Cricket system. Which version PRL is currently in that phone?
 
oh god, i dunno- its a old verizon PRL that the previous owner used 4 years ago. I manually entered:

Primary CDMA channel A = 283
Secondary CDMA channel A =691
Primary CDMA channel B = 384
Secondary CDMA channel B= 777
sid= 4945
nid= 65535

But your right, it keeps roamin on verizon
:doh:
 
Yes, that's perfectly normal. The home SID does not override the PRL. You need to provision the hanRABet with a Cricket PRL, otherwise it won't get on the Cricket network.
 
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