DROID sucks in Alaska

[chrisofer]

It might be a little late, but I just joined the forums and I'll give my advice for your problem. I Just got stationed in Fairbanks at the first part of July and had the same problem when I landed, had voice and text but no data.

Go into your phone settings and check "Use data while roaming" or something like that and you'll have your 3G in Alaska

 

[Johnly]

Alaska is American! My dad works there often. Those that say Alaska sucks are sucking on wishes to see the beautiful scape! Remember folks, they don't call Alaska the last frontier for nothing ; ) Don't expect a super network in pristine Alaska....

 

[alaskarose]

No Travel Outside Alaska but roaming stopped overnigh

It might be a little late, but I just joined the forums and I'll give my advice for your problem. I Just got stationed in Fairbanks at the first part of July and had the same problem when I landed, had voice and text but no data.

Go into your phone settings and check "Use data while roaming" or something like that and you'll have your 3G in Alaska

:icon_evil: I have had these trouble with roaming with my new Droid X after flying in from the Lower 48, but if I remove the battery and replace, the roaming returns. This morning the phone just stopped roaming at 7 a.m. Nothng worked including calling Verizon. Changing the setting as mentioned above seems to work. Thanks so much.

 

[AKflyer]

Droid in Alaska

Well, I switched to a Droid with ACS, from an iPhone with AT&T. Overall a very positive change. The AT&T 3g coverage is pretty good in the Anchorage area, and seems more consistent than the ACS 3G coverage. As soon as you leave the big city area, there's no comparison - the ACS 3G coverage is waaaay better. If you spend any time up on the North Slope, AT&T is pretty much useless for data. ACS 3G coverage up there is very good. Anywhere in between (except for Fairbanks).... good luck getting anything with any provider! After all, it is Alaska. If you have any cell phone coverage at all, you're really not in the wilderness yet. ;-)

 

[HardcoreAK]

Just a few notes. I am with ACS, and have been since 1994. I have looked over the fence, since the beginning, especially when you could get a whopping 500 minutes from ACS for 100/ month, and they had unlimited calling etc, from AT&T, then they had the iPhone, and ACS was jamming us in the rear with cheap junk candy bars, and "the Q".

Thing is this, way back then in the 90's, I could make full calls from many VERY remote locations, like out on the ICE of the Beaufort Sea with my old Moto Flip Phone, I could call home, when my coworkers, and such with AT&T (Always Trying & Trying) couldnt even get a bar of signal with a BAG PHONE.

Nowadays with ACS we get DECENT 3G coverage pretty much anywhere you WANT to be in Alaska. AT&T gets ok sorta crappy service in the outlying areas, but GREAT coverage in the Big City. Out of town, You may have to climb up a tree, or get on top of your cabin, LOL, It may not be lightning fast, but its there. AT&T is just that, Always Trying & Trying & Trying.... IMHO they suck in Alaska.

So anyway, yeah Alaska sucks too, but the biggest mistake ever made in Alaska was accepting Statehood. Now we are saddled with all the beaureaucrats from DC telling us what to do, how to live, what to eat, and when we can eat it, where we can piss, and how much it will cost to clean it up. Besides the State of Alaska is just a huge SAP on the 'overflowing' coffers of the federal reserve of "The Great 48". Most Alaskans feel that Alaska should have remained a territory, we have gotten a belly full of 'pukers' telling us what to do.

Yeah, SO sell Alaska to us for .02c on the dollar, and take your beareaucrat's back, find a little cubicle for them to rant, rave, and spew out rules, drama and politics to control YOU as they dwell the rest of there miserable career in YOUR back yard.

It sucks here, SO dont bother coming here.
We got enough people here anyway.
LOL. Peace Out.:icon_ lala:

 

[Barkleyfan]

lol Nero played a fiddle while Rome burned. Judging by our current senate, I think that was the best call.