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mogley

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I actually have 2 questions. Cricket just came to the Milwaukee area 18th of this month and the phones available suck. I want to flash an instinct to cricket especially since the WAP is now available :-D.

First question, was talking to a dealer and he told me that something about the CDMA frequency used in the Milwaukee area by cricket will only allow a certain type of CDMA phones to work unlike Memphis where u can flash any CDMA phone. It made no sense to me but was wondering if anyone else can shed more light on it.

Secondly what does AWS stand for? Came across this when searching the forum but was not able to find a definition.
 
This clears up everything, targeted for the las vegas market but I believe it also hold true for the Midwest.
http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1419256&highlight=tri+band\


So if anyone else is curious I guess AWS indicates that the phone is tri band, and cricket areas that only support tri band can only use AWS phones. I guess the only carriers releasing AWS phones are cricket and MetroPCS. If you activate a dual band CDMA in another market and bring it to a tir band market it will work under roaming, however you will not be able to activate a dual band phone in a tri band area. Not much variety available in AWS yet. This sucks so much balls, but oh well.
 
Sorry you can't flash the instinct to cricket while in Milwaukee. Milwaukee is an aws market aka tri-band.

*The way I explain it to my customers and the easiest I way I think I can... basically the way that the phone talks to the tower is different and currently the phones that cricket sells in this area are the ONLY phones that can talk correctly to the towers. Even if the phone is flashed it still will not interact correctly.

In semi-tech terms - AWS stanRAB for advanced wireless service. Phones and towers operate on the auction 66 spectrum (1700 mhz). The reason the phones are called triband is because they can operate in 1700 mhz (milwaukee, st lois, etc), 800 and 1900 (existing markets and most CMDA providers [sprint, usc, vzw]). So even tho our triband phones are backwarRAB cap. theirs arent forward capable if that makes sense?

To use premo extended calling to the fullest extent, you must have a triband phone cuz philly is a metropcs aws market - but I think that the only one right now, I THINK. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Going forward, all markets are going to be built out w/ aws and one day cricket will only sell triband phones. BUT, verizon, t-mobile, and us cellular all won aws spectrum too. (This is the main reason t-mobile is building out 3g). So as soon as they (vzw, usc, trabl) start utilizing the aws spectrum, flashing will work in triband networks. But now that I think about it, tmobile phones still prolly wont work. and the other guys might not start doing that for years.

Long story short - make sure your phone has a tri-band logo on the back - otherwise you'll be SOL (Well actually roaming, so yeah, SOL).

I think that I should win an award for the best response haha jk or at least for using the most ( ) in one reply haha
 
T-Mobile is GSM, and their phones won't work with Cricket & Metro, due to the phones using W-CDMA, rather than regular CDMA. Even T-Mobile's 3G phones are limited, due to AT&T not utilizing their AWS licenses, and them not requesting AWS compatible phones. Same with Verizon on the CDMA side.

From my understanding, both Verizon & AT&T plan to wait until LTE is finalized before they use any of their AWS licenses. Both have planned to wait until LTE is finalized before using their 700 band licenses as well (though there's a strict buildout timeline for the 700 band licenses).
 
your post is confusing.(but correct)
t-mobile does not use cdma2000 (what cricket uses) on their frequencies so you cannot flash phones from t-mobile to cricket even if the tmobile phone is supporting NA1700 AKA 1700/2100MHZ
 
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