Hank Roberts wrote:
> On Jun 19, 8:24 pm, Redigoogle <redicl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I live in a mountainous area in northern California....
>> Recently, within the last three to five months,Verizonservice has changed noticeably even dramatically.
>> So much so that some of my friends have changed providers.
>> ...
>
> Bingo. Dagnabbit. Anyone know specifically about this last
> weekend, June 18-21 -- was anything especially bad?
>
> I've been successfully using a Kyocera 6035 for years at a mountain
> field work site in N. Ca. -- always connected fine.
> All that time, people with newer phones without the pullout type
> antenna have often found they couldn't work cellular where we could.

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> If indeed there was a problem with no analog channels during this
> period -- what time span? Will it be restored?

Not sure where you are talking about exactly, but rural and mountain
coverage for Verizon took a big hit when AMPS was shut down. Lots of
places that used to have coverage now have no coverage.

There was still AMPS in central California's gold country (Golden State
Cellular) in March, and in far northern California and southern Oregon
(U.S. Cellular) last week (my own experience). Someone reported Verizon
AMPS out in Death Valley recently. In Silicon Valley, AMPS is completely
gone, even though in the surrounding greenbelt there is often no digital
at all, either GSM or CDMA.

You're probably S.O.L. with Verizon if you need AMPS. Switch carriers,
if there is one to switch to that's any better.