Rogers and at&t share the same towers, or at least rogers in Canada bought them from the US.
No wonder signal, overall network speed suck here, though I'm not getting any dropped calls. I must say though, I can't wait to move to the us and go on vz. From what my partner tells me (he has the droid x), vz has quite a good network. On 2011-03-01, at 8:29 PM, James Mannion wrote: > I really think it is because mobile networks are not able yet to > handel people putting unlimited demands for data access on them. Any > network has its upper limits and mobile networks are still less able > to handel demand than land line networks. If they put limits that > serve a purpose, but are not over limiting, that keeps people from > constantly doing things like streaming the most data intensive video > stuff and whatever else they can fid with no concern of any > consequences to themselves, bringing down the entire network so nobody > can do anything and then everybody is left unhappy. People will be a > little more reasonable with what they do if there is a cost to them. > Having said that, AT&T's netwrk can not even handel the limited use in > some areas including the city where I live. During the day I can not > even pull up a small web page on AT&T's 3g network. It simply times > out. I can not stream pandora, I can barely use the weather app to > pull its small amount of data. Since my contract is almost up, I have > signed on with Verizon and I can tell you that right now their network > actually works in my area. My understanding is that this exact > situation is not uncommon at all. Maybe Verizon will manage their > resources and growth in a way that does not create another AT&T. > > On 3/1/11, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> what's the theory behind VZ droping its unlimited data plan? read more: >> >> http://bit.ly/e7omui >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
