Talk:Verizon (wireless service)

"Verizon is one of three national carriers to use CDMA technology; the other national CDMA carrier is Sprint PCS. Another CDMA carrier which is not considered national, but has a large presence in many areas, especially the rural South, is ALLTEL." ... If ALLTEL isn't considered national, then who is the third national CDMA carrier? Mr2001 08:44, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

ALLTEL isn't considered national because their own network focuses on small to medium sized cities, especially in the South. However, Verizon and ALLTEL have a very good cross-network roaming deal that allows ALLTEL to offer national plans essentially indistinguishable from Verizon's, and allows Verizon to have excellent service in rural areas, especially compared to some of its competitors.

This isn't a cellular network information page. It is supposed to be about Verizon.

Can anyone give us a little info on the history of Verizon? Like the PrimeCo acquisition and so forth.--Jporter07 22:27, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think it might be worth mentioning Verizon's crippling of the Motorola V710's Bluetooth. They disabled most of the functionality one expects from Bluetooth on a phone, in order to force customers to pay them more money in data charges (e.g. you can't download pictures to your computer via Bluetooth, even though the phone's hardware is perfectly capable of it).

$4 billion on network upkeep?

This article says that Verizon spends $4 billion a year on network maintenance. This does not sound feasible. Are we sure it's accurate?

yea i dunno we can remove it for now i guess

That figure is accurate, you can view it on their website too. Aviationwiz 04:27, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this figure is correct. I work for VZW, they would rather spend $$ on the network than on people any day.

Either the number is true or the constant parade of "$100 million network upgrade in <population center or region> is complete!" across the company intranet site is a bag of lies. I may be biased, of course, but I don't think it is lies. Howdoesthiswo 03:53, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What I changed:

I changed some of the controversy section to make it more accurate. I would explain everything in the edit page, but I ran out of room so I put it here:

1. Verizon doesn't have over the air firmware updating, so to update the v710's firmware, you have to take it to the store and have it flashed with the new software.

2. I removed the V710 crippling expect for OBEX and free transfer of other things because this phone is also crippled for other carriers expect for MP3 file transfer which is the only major feature removed from this phone. The Alltell, Telus Mobility, and the USCC versions of these phone don't have the mail reader, AIM, or full bluetooth either.

  Perhaps the info would be better at home on the 710's page, with a list of who cripples what? Howdoesthiswo 03:54, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Phone Hacking

Anyone want to elaborate more on that blurb? When I was looking getting a new phone (I thought this one had died, I was wrong, didn't end up buying a new one), I saw all sorts of sites about how to enable OBEX on the V3c, and other related hacks. Is there an "authority" on hacking verizon phones we could cite? Disavian 19:12, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding divulging service codes, in the case of subsidy lock that isn't hard, VZW doesn't actually use it, leaving all equipment on the default, which I'd like to include here but I won't for fear someone will preemptively edit it out. The real issue is talking to someone within the company that even understands what it is. Most of those that do have no problem telling you the default, and will likely add a warning to change it away from the default at your own peril. Howdoesthiswo 04:01, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name

"The faux word "Verizon" is derived by combining the word "veritas," a Latin term that means "truth," and the word "horizon." Together, they are supposed to conjure images of reliability, certainty, leadership, and limitless possibilities."

Is this correct? It does not cite its source. Also, although I live in Ireland, I've heard about Verizon due to Vodafone's 45% stake in it. I had always assumed it was a play on "horizon" with "vertical" i.e. "horizon being derived from horizontal, and verizon being derived from horizon AND vertical (similar to words like chocoholic, which SHOULD be chocolatic, but just have "holic" because it becomes instantly recognisable). Am I wrong (I probably am but could someone at least get a source) - ^R_H^e _o^d_t 23:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is actually true I work for Verizon Wireless, and my trainer told us about the meaning of Verizon. It is accurate.