Rev A Information - Alltel?

PRIME1 · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: Rev A Information - Alltel?

Hi All,

Does anyone know if/when Alltel will be converting areas over to Rev A? I've seen alot of posts regarding the Sprint Rev A rollout, cards, etc. and was just curious why there was no info coming from Alltel.

Thanks in advance....

MaximumSignal · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject: Re: Rev A Information?

PRIME1 · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:39 am Post subject:

Thanks for the reply Maximum. Since Sprint and Alltel have signed a roaming agreement, do you think Alltel will offer the Rev A cards so you can use it when roaming on Sprint?

I'm just wondering why anyone is going to stay with Alltel? Sounds like it would be better to go with Sprint and get a Rev A card that will fallback to Rev 0 when roaming on Alltel. That way you could use Rev A if you were in an area that supported it and still not lose the better coverage area of Alltel. Am I missing something?

Thanks Again!
Smile

MaximumSignal · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:24 am Post subject:

PRIME1 · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:20 am Post subject:

I'm an Alltel customer now but would look at switching to Sprint if they ever get Rev A close enough that I might actually use it. I have my cell phones and broadband with Alltel but it's not like a get any discounts for having it all with them.

EVDO is currently my only broadband choice so I run my entire house over this connection. The faster, the better for me. My EVDO Rev 0 is definitely better than the dialup I came from but I would switch to cable or DSL in a minute if it were available. My son and I have been dying to do some Xbox online gaming but the connection just can't handle it right now.

Thanks again for the information.

1WirelessGuy · EVDO Newbie Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 7

Scuttlebutt around Alltel is that it will be rolled out in major markets 1st or 2nd quarter next year, and that the overall rollout should be faster than the rollout to 1x has been. There are rumors of Rev A hardware in the labs now.

JT · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 24

dimar4hire · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

Hey guys,
I use Sprint myself, I was in Canton Texas the other day and I turned on Roaming, I was on alltel, I don't know what the heck was going on but my card was reporting Rev A and the fact I was roaming. I posted the pics in the sprint forum. Check it out, maybe it's just a sprint fluke somehow or maybe (hopefully, hehe) Alltel is rolling out with sprint? I dunno. All I know is I was connected to Alltel and it said revison A. Check out the pics lemme know if you can shed any light. nobody else has been able to so far. lol

Dimar

breethon · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 12

I run a tether from my E815 to my pc. Will I have to do something different to get Rev A, or will my phone automatically adapt to the new service? I assume that if you use a PCMCIA card, that you would either have to flash the firmware or buy new hardware.

dimar4hire · Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure breethon. My guess would be if your phone supports REV A (like my Pantech card did) They would send the phone some kind of update to turn it on. If not (Don't know much about your phone) You'd have to bite the bullet and get a phone that supports REV A.

Bigdave · EVDO Addict Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 1069

You would definitely have to buy either a Rev A card or phone. All the newer cards being released support Rev A. As a matter of fact anyone buying a card today would be rather foolish to buy one that does NOT support Rev A in my opinion. Unless, of course, you live in an area where you know for sure you will not be getting Rev A over the term of any new contract you might have to enter into with a new card.

As for Rev A phones . . . . to my knowledge there aren't any yet. And from what I've read you will definitely have to upgrade to a new phone since it will not be as simple as upgrading the software or flashing the firmware or whatever. Go figure. Always gonna be some reason to add to that collection of useless car chargers we already have, huh.

Capt.Dan · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:

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colebert · EVDO Junkie Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 170

two small points... Sprint roaming on Alltel doubles your latency, in my experience. additionally, in some areas, roaming onto Alltel EVDO isn't as a simple as point and click. for me, it takes some doing to trick the connection manager into creating a successful roaming connection.