what exactly is premium extended coverage?

Actually ^

Now that I think about it...

I live in (or around) a new cricket area, and on their site it says "tri-band area" which I gather is AWS and requires a phone with CDMA 1700.

Now... if I walk into a Sprint or Verizon store, or check online, I dont think either of them have ANY phones that use the AWS/1700 band...

Therefore, I dont think they share towers/bandwidth...

Am I making any sense?
 
No it does not Cricket's parent company Leap Wireless owns and Operates its own 1900mhz PCS and 1.7ghz(1700mhz) AWS Network utilizing CDMA/EVDO



Cricket Offers nationwide roaming via a agreement with Sprint, Verizon and other smaller CDMA Networks. It is how ever not unlimited and only so people can leave cricket coverage and still be able to use their phone with their nuraber.


PEC or Premium Extended Coverage is a roaming aggrement with MetroPCS and 13 other Smaller carriers to allow Unlimited Roaming in each others Networks. This allows cricket to offer a larger Unlimited Coverage Footprint.
 
Yeah, I made those comments erroneously. Very sorry for that, I was still thinking of Virgin Mobile (who I used for a couple of years).
I was about to correct myself on that. I found a site that has a list of us carriers, and what networks that they use after reading the comment about whether or not my bad post could be confirmed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_phone_companies
tho I cant even guess at how accurate that wiki is.

Bigtime apologies for the bad info there on my part, but glad that I was corrected.
 
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