Nat'l access VS Americas choice?

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I have had a Verizon no roaming plan in various forms for several years now.
I am currently a couple of months into a 2 year contract on "nat'l access
MOU" data & voice plan. 2K minutes per month with 1K on weekends & MOU on
data. I drive truck OTR. I have been toying with the idea of switching to
Americas choice to save money. I have wi-fi accounts to access the web &
rarely use the 1x data connect.
I currently have an LG VX6100. I have been watching the roam indicator
(triangle) & have never seen it go to solid(full roam) mode Its always
flashing.. However when I'm off Verizon on "extended network" & push the
send button it says "roam" next to the timer.
Outside of a lot of dropped calls while moving I am generally able to use
the service everywhere.
Has anyone here switched from national access to Americas choice & if so how
was the level of coverage? Is there a way to determine if the calls I
previously made would have gone through on Americas choice?
Does Verizon have a trial period if I'm not happy with the AC, or do I lose
my original plan?
I travel all over & don't wish to degrade my coverage.
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CorkyF

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"617 Phones" <617@volcanomail.com> wrote in message
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> I've only traveled through a few spots in the past 3 months where
> coverage is available with NA or SRN, but not on AC2.
>
> 1. Small areas of NW Massachusetts.
>
> 2. Short break in coverage after the transition from I-15 to I-70 in
> Utah, poor reception on NSR, not available on AC2.
>
> 3. Areas around Grand Canyon in northern AZ.
>
> 4. Much of eastern West Virginia.
>
> 5. California 395 just south of Ridgecrest.
>
> There are certainly others, as I've not traveled to the Pacific NW
> since the changes.
>
> One quick question--how were you able to get the 1K weekend minutes
> with the National Access plan? Or was that just grandfathered from
> years back?
>


Originally when I signed I received 3K weekend for an incentive. A couple
years later I upgraded the plan & lost the free weekend minutes. However
they said for $10 they would toss in 1K free weekend minutes. Ah.....good
'ol Verizon )

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"Kevin Porter" <kporter@roux.com> wrote in message
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> "617 Phones" <617@volcanomail.com> wrote:
>>
>>One quick question--how were you able to get the 1K weekend minutes
>>with the National Access plan? Or was that just grandfathered from
>>years back?
>
> I have this also, national access with weekend minutes because I've had it
> for a
> few years. They won't even let me change the number of minutes in my
> plan,
> though, without losing the free weekends.

That's how I lost mine. Upgraded from1500 to 2000. Lost my 3000 free
weekend minutes, but since I used it mainly to avoid long distance charges,
and my phone company went to unlimited LD, it wasn't a real deal breaker.
The nice people at Verizon did sell me a 1000 weekend minute add on for $10.
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CorkyF