Hi Dick, A few things: * I am on Bell & they aren't that bad. Much better then when we were on Telus. As well, I used to mange corporate contrcats with Telus & it doesn't matter what level of service Telus just sucks all around. * Virgin is now owned by Bell & Solo is also Bell. Solo is basically there no/low commitment product...similar to the Rogers/Fido & Telus/Koodo coonections. * I have been pretty impressed with Bell actually with regards to coverage & service. I did have a bad instance with customer service, but I think you get that with everybody. Coverage wise, my wife, here sister & I were recently down in Waterton & the campsite was deeps in the woods. Wife & I (Bell) were both able to get cell service & sis-in-law (Telus) was not. This of course flucuated a bit with conditions, but it was pretty stable. We regularry go to Columbia Valley in BC, have found that coverage is decent with the exception of a few dead zones as you are before you travel up the mountains again into Radium & places that are very out of the way, but in Radium, Inveremere, Fairmont...all is well. * Cost-wise everything is pretty much the same with only minor difference between them. * Phones on Telus & Bell tend to be locked to those networks. Rogers is based on a SIM card so can be swappered out. There are guys out there that will unlock your phone, but I am not sue of prices & who to recommend. * Whoever you go through you are pretty much looking at getting a new phone, but most of the main guys offer the same phones anyways. If you are avoiding contracts, you will likely be purchasing the phone for the full price, so be prepared, especially since everybody is trying to lock their customers in before a raft of competition start sweeping in. B ut from the sounds of it, a simple phone should be all you need.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Dick Angus <[email protected]> wrote: > We've had Telus cell service for the past 3 years and not been happy with > them. Our contract is up this month and we are looking at alternatives. We > don't need much, just telephone service. We don't do messaging or hook to > the Internet and seldom use more than 50 minutes a month. We occasionally > travel to the US and would like to make the occasional call down there, so > few that paying for each will be pretty minor. We live in Okotoks and travel > around the foothills so coverage could be an issue. > > We have a Motorola V710 that does all we need and then some. We've talked to > Solo and Fido so far, but we are not sure where we'll settle in. The point > is that they all tell us that we can't use our Motorola because it's locked > to Telus? Is that true or can I unlock it somehow? Basic service cost is a > factor and Solo, Fido, and Virgin have $15.00/month monthly basis service > that seems to fit us. Any thoughts gratefully accepted. > -- > > An old mainframer getting current! > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
