FCC Yells at Verizon, Verizon drops coverage

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Guess what Verizon Wireless customers, you may notice more "extended network" or NO SERVICE areas with your Verizon Wireless phone.

Over the years, Verizon Wireless has acquired several different regional wireless providers and four national providers. This has given them over 99% of the United States covered. That is nearly 25% more than the nearest competitor, Sprint PCS.

The FCC says this monopoly cannot continue and you'll begin to notice the coverage slowly shrink. You can already notice more "white spots" in their red coverage map at Coverage Locator - Verizon Wireless.
 
I actually have a feeling they got yelled at for overextending their Extended Network coverage. They have the most roaming agreements of any wireless carrier. Which gives them the LARGE red area.

I'm going to compare a couple maps for you:

Verizon Wireless-Before 2008
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Verizon Wireless after 2008 (and present):

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The above map is the current map Verizon Wireless has.

You'll notice that Verizon Wireless seems to have expanded in some areas, but drastically lost coverage in other areas, like Nevada and Texas. They have increased coverage a lot in Alaska (all extended network), North Dakota, and Oregon. Actually, Oregon just switched from Extended Network to on network coverage (when Verizon purchased the western half of US Cellular.
 
I believe the big gaps especially in Nevada and eastern Oregon is when analog and TDMA were shut off, I lost a lot of coverage then :(
 
You shouldn't have because of analog being turned off (Verizon used analog, but not TDMA).

Whenever Verizon was forced to go all digital, they replaced 1 analog tower with 6 digital ones. That was the standard conversion to get the same coverage.
 
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