When You're 'Roaming' on Sprint, Does It Have The "R" for Roaming?

Yeah, I'm on one of the new nationwide plans..

I wonder why it has a flashing "R" when I'm at home roaming on Verizon but it's a solid "R" here. It's weird.

Do you have any ideas?
 
Only time you phone should show roaming is when Cricket and Sprint network is out of reach. Happend to me yesterday...One of my phones which is a Dealer line has the old plan on it and i was in the middle of no where and it was showing Roaming, while my other phone which is on a new plan that has roaming had two bars of service, i made a test call on it to see if i hear the cricket wherever whenever but call went through right away. In your case its more likely that You cant get cricket or sprint so you roam on verizon.
 
I'm just confused because when I'm roaming in my home area I have a flashing "R" and it comes up with the Cricket roaming message, with the amount of minutes left, etc, and then recently when I was traveling, it was a SOLID "R" and didn't have the message, but instead, the call just went through. It's weird. Does that make any sense?
 
It depenRAB on the phone and firmware version, The solid state "R" is to let you know that you are "Roaming" out side the standard cricket service. These area's would be any where sprint service covers, this area shouldn't allow any data but just calls and text.
The blinking "R" is "Roaming" and its blinking to alert you that calls placed in this area will cost extra money, this is how it was in the older days when you had to pay for 10cents a min roaming on other networks.
 
Samsung JetSet.

Atlantic City Market, and I was traveling in Northern New Jersey - which is MetroPCS and Sprint territory. I had a regular signal (1X) which I assumed was MetroPCS, and web worked, and then I had a solid "R" in which web didn't work.
 
Well, that makes sense. That would explain why I didn't get the "Cricket Nationwide Roaming" message when I placed a call with a solid "R". I'll try to keep this in mind. From now on, if I see a flashing "R", I'll assume I'll get charged for it (and I have the 30 minutes a month, so I'm good), and if it's a solid "R", I know I can talk all I want and it won't cost more.

So, I'm guessing Cricket has different priorities for whose network you use, and I'm guessing they're like this:

1) Cricket
2) MetroPCS (or, I'm guessing, another roaming partner other than Sprint)
3) Sprint (if there isn't Cricket, MetroPCS, or another roaming partner)
4) Verizon (if there isn't any of the above, but this costs money)

It's nice to know that we have that, because they'll make sure we have a signal almost everywhere. Now, all we need is Sprint roaming to be allowed while we're in our Cricket market (for those few places that Cricket doesn't cover).

Thanks for the reply, amoamare. :)
 
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