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From my experience if you change your PRL to that of another network, your phone will report roaming differently. For example this past weekend I was completely out of Sprint coverage so I loaded up a Verizon PRL, 65144. The status on the phone changed from Roaming to Preferred System (or something like that) and additionally my signal went from 1x Roaming to EVDO. I was able to open an EVDO data connection and use it for a few hours. Bandwidth test on mobilespeed test showed about 800kbps. Not great but far better than 1x. The next day, however, my phone would repeatedly close the data connection after only short periods of use. From what I've heard is that Sprint only has 1X data roaming agreements with Verizon and Altel. Looking at my usage on the Sprint site, everything was logged as roaming.

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