Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: rpw3%rigden.wpd@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: My Trip to Kansas Message-ID: <9621@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Jul 90 08:39:32 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Rob Warnock Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 40 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 476, Message 1 of 11 In article <9537@accuvax.nwu.edu> doug@letni.lonestar.org (Doug Davis) writes: | >On the way back everything worked fine, except... the roaming light | >(as opposed to 'no service' light) would come on... | This is usually due to a phone being programmed to scan the b and a | carriers, sometimes they mistakenly lock on a (insert opposing carrier)'s | signal and roam to it. The solution is to program your phone... | On most phones this is a user option and can be changed "on the fly" | without going into program mode. On the CT-301 this is done with "1", then pushing "1" to rotate among: A - "A" system only B - "B" system only H - your "home" system (whichever of A or B your basic service is with) S - scan for best signal They do warn you quite explicitly in the CT-301 User's Guide that "S" may sometimes lock onto the "wrong" system. By the way, I use this all the time to temporarily slide over to the "B" system here (GTE Mobilnet) to call "*227" ("*CBS"), the "KCBS Cellular Phone Force" (traffic spotter) number. It's supposed to be a free call, and indeed I haven't been charged yet, even both the "NON-HOME" + "ROAM" indicators come on. (The "A" system, PacTel Mobile, has "*KGO81", but I listen to KCBS, not KGO.) ["Oh", not "zero". -----^ Blettch!] Does anyone have an example where calling a "free" "*xxx" number resulted in charges to a roamer? Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com rpw3@pei.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)335-1673 Protocol Engines, Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7311