4. Roaming

Understanding Roaming

Recognizing Icons on the Display Screen

Your phone’s display screen always lets you know when you’re off the home network and whether your phone is operating in analog or digital mode. The following chart indicates what you’ll see depending on where you’re using your phone.

Network

Indicator

Digital Home

Analog Home

Digital Roaming

Digital Roam

Analog Roaming

Analog Roam

Roaming on Digital Networks

When you’re roaming on digital networks, your call quality and security will be similar to the quality you receive when making calls on the home network. You may not be able to access certain features.

Roaming on Analog Networks

When you roam on analog networks, you will experience a similar quality provided by other analog carriers today. Although some features will be unavailable, you can still make and receive calls. You will experience a few differences:

You are more likely to experience cross-talk, fade-out, and dropped calls.

Some features which are standard on the home network are unavailable.

There are security and privacy risks (eavesdropping and cloning) that exist with conventional analog services today.

Your battery needs recharging sooner when you use your phone for analog roaming.

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