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Originally Posted by SPRINTPDAGUY
For people that are worried about a RPL update, there is nothing that special about it. PRL stand for perferred roaming list. All a PRL update does is update you phone with new roaming towers available to your specfic carrier.
PRl really does nothing at all, unless you live in an area with lots of roaming.
Updating your radio would have a better effect with coverage issues, not a PRL update.
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Yes and No.
Its called Preferred Roaming List for a reason. Pay attention to the preferred. Providers have agreements with other providers towers which let you use those towers and not roam. But you are roaming on another tower thats not your providers but your provider has an agreement with them which lets you use it. If you have an outdated PRL you will in fact roam and your phone will tell you your roaming. Thats why its called preferred roaming list because your provider preferes you to roam on those towers. Another example is say if there are 4 providers in the same city and and you just happen to drop off your home tower so instead of attaching to a tower with the strongest signal it will attached to a preferred tower thats in your prl.
The reason a person would have bad coverage is if they drop from there home tower and the phone has no prefered list to attach to so it keeps trying to connect to a tower thats out of his reach thus having a bad signal. So yes keep your prl updated and update your radio.
So to say a prl does nothing is verry wrong.