Sent Scott an email and he responded in no less than 15 minutes. Figured it may be a week or never, but got replied to lighting fast. Asked him about cell service on gameday and he said both AT&T and CellularSouth are working to upgrade service on gamedays. Great news!
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the people at the Verizon store in Starkville said that Verizon has owned the towers in Mississippi for years but didn't really have a presence here. They allowed Cellular South to use/lease the towers and therefore Cellular South had really good service. They went on to say that now that Verizon has a presence here, they may not continue letting Cellular South use the towers. Like I said, I don't know if this has any truth to it....the salespeople may have just been talking **** to get us to switch from AT&T.
I doubt that Cell South would tell Verizon to take a hike, seeing as that is where a good deal of Cell South's nationwide coverage comes from is Verizon towers outside of MS.
This is correct. CS and Verizon are on the same networks. Verizon uses CS's towers inside of CS's footprint and CS uses Verizon's towers everywhere else. Verizon and CS are both planning to upgrade to an LTE network in the very near future so I doubt this agreement will be any different going forward.topdawg said:
and even though it's only 6-7 saturdays out of the year I am considering switching my service from AT&T if it's not any better this year (and I fully expect it will be as ****** as ever). It is impossible to coordinate with anyone once you're on campus w/ <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">an iPhone</span> a brick.onewoof said:
...Verizon historically needed Cellular South in MS because Verizon didn't have much of a network here (as good as T-mobile, at best). However, in the last two or three years, they bought both Alltel and Rural Wireless, which gave them 850 MHz spectrum* in about 85% of MS. Once Verizon gets those two networks fully integrated together, they may not need Cellular South as much as Cellular South needs them, and the dynamics of the relationship may change drastically.
*-Wireless 101: There's two main frequency bands in use for wireless at present, 850 MHz and 1900 MHz. The 850 MHz, being at a lower frequency, will transmit farther than the 1900 MHz. There are only two 850 MHz licenses available in each market, so whoever has those two licenses will typically have better coverage than those who do not. In MS, Verizon has about 85% of the A-band 850 MHz spectrum across the state, and the B-band 850 spectrum is nearly evenly divided between Cellular South and AT&T, with Cellular South having Starkville/Columbus, Oxford, the Delta, and most of South MS, while AT&T has central MS, all of I-20, I-55 from Hazlehurst to Oakland, the four counties nearest Memphis, and most of northeast MS.
*-Wireless 101: There's two main frequency bands in use for wireless at present, 850 MHz and 1900 MHz. The 850 MHz, being at a lower frequency, will transmit farther than the 1900 MHz. There are only two 850 MHz licenses available in each market, so whoever has those two licenses will typically have better coverage than those who do not. In MS, Verizon has about 85% of the A-band 850 MHz spectrum across the state, and the B-band 850 spectrum is nearly evenly divided between Cellular South and AT&T, with Cellular South having Starkville/Columbus, Oxford, the Delta, and most of South MS, while AT&T has central MS, all of I-20, I-55 from Hazlehurst to Oakland, the four counties nearest Memphis, and most of northeast MS.
Intrestingly the tower on top of the water tower overlooking the stadium is actually owned by the University. They bill AT&T and Cellular South monthly for all associated fees with that tower etc. That is a co AT&T/ Cellular South tower so obviosuly AT&T is dropping the ball on gameday upgrades where Cellular South is stepping it up. In MS CS it the one to have, anywhere else Verizon is the way to go.