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Note: If you’re on a call when you leave the home network and enter an
area where roaming is available (whether digital or analog), your call is
dropped. If your call is dropped in an area where you think service is
available, turn your phone off and on again to reconnect to the home
network.
Note: When using your phone in analog mode, the handset may feel
warm. This behaviour is normal for analog operation.
Setting Your Phone’s Roam Mode
Your phone allows you to control your ability to roam. By using
the Roaming menu option, you can determine which signals your
phone accepts.
Set Mode
Choose from four different settings on your dual band/tri mode
phone to control your roaming experience:
1. Press to access the main menu.
2. Highlight Settings and press .
3. Highlight Roaming and press .
4. To select an option, select it and press .
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Automatic: This setting seeks Service. When Service is
unavailable,the phone searches for an alternate system.
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Home Only: This setting allows you to access the home
network only and prevents roaming on other networks.
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Digital Only: This setting forces the phone to seek a digital
roaming system.
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Analog Only: This setting forces the phone to seek an analog
roaming system. The previous setting (Automatic,Home
Only,or Digital Only) is restored the next time the phone is
turned on.
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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, such as Web.
Roaming on AnalogNetworks
When you roam on analog networks, you will experience a
similar quality provided by other analog carriers today. Although
some features, such as Web,will be unavailable, you can still
make and receive calls. You will experience a few differences:
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You are more likely to experience, cross-talk, fade-out, and
dropped calls.
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Some features which are standard on the home network are
unavailable.
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There are security and privacy risks (eavesdropping and
cloning) that exist with conventional analog services today.
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Your battery needs recharging sooner when you use your
phone for analog roaming.
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