Cricket Experiencing issues with roaming in AWS market ????

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chadol4962

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My situation: AWS Market, Flashing Dual-band phones over to cricket

today something happened to me, weird...

i flashed two LG Dares to cricket using like 6 different PRLs, (The new updated ones, and old one too)

the way i do it, the customer has to have the "Extended Coverage", because that is how the phone works (sprint roaming agreement)

well, now today i flashed two phones, and id like they did not had NATIONAL COVERAGE, or the cricket representatives did lied and told me the wrong information (they told me the customer has PREMUM COVERAGE/NATIONAL COVERAGE, when in fact, they did not have)...

i have already served like 60 people already, and none of them have complainted jet...
 
I'm not 100% familiar with flashing and how it works...since I live in an AWS market and basically no one here does it. But I will give you the explanation I was given.

As of late march (the nationwide rollout), a dual band phone in a tri-band market will always roam. In Baltimore for example (AWS/TriBand market) Cricket doesn't need/have any roaming partnerships inside the native market anymore. Why pay extra for Sprint's coverage in the metro area when you have plenty of your own cell sites?

The reason why I say as of late march is because Cricket did indeed have some help from Sprint inside the borders of their native baltimore market (to assist and fill in their launch last june) but with the rollout of nationwide, they ended the agreement and only use native Cricket cell sites now.

Roaming partnerships can be selective by region, market, area, etc. Just because you borrow Sprint coverage in one place doesn't mean you use them nationwide. Cricket only uses Sprint in areas mostly outside native markets...along with something like 17 other roaming partners nationwide.
 
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