Will Bell/Telus HSPA coverage be better than Rogers HSPA?
- Reports on other forums that the new Bell/Telus shared HSPA network that they are rapidly rolling out is in active test mode all across Canada, not just in major city centres. People are picking up their new HSPA network ID (302-880) on their devices coast to coast, and I've found it in rural areas in Ontario where Rogers currently doesn't offer HSPA coverage. I've heard they plan to switch it live sometime later in the fall.
(If you have a HSPA compatible 3G phone or HSPA internet stick and live in Canada, check your available networks and see if your device can detect a network with the ID 302-880. If you detect it, post a note to let us know where you are. The dRogers EDGE network ID is 302-720.)
Given that the Bell/Telus HSPA network is in test mode in rural areas, I'm thinking that they may be planning on a complete system switch from CDMA to HSPA all at once, coast to coast, all towers. If that is the case, they would instantly have (by far) the most extensive HSPA network coverage in Canada....08-23-09 03:01 PMLike 0 - CDMA will still be around for a few more years, they aren't just going to stop all at once.
Last edited by Shao128; 08-23-09 at 03:09 PM.
08-23-09 03:05 PMLike 0 - True - I didn't mean that they would drop CDMA immediately, just that they might be pushing hard to offer access via HSPA as well across their entire network, not just in high-density areas like Rogers.08-23-09 03:09 PMLike 0
- (If you have a HSPA compatible 3G phone or HSPA internet stick and live in Canada, check your available networks and see if your device can detect a network with the ID 302-880. If you detect it, post a note to let us know where you are. The dRogers EDGE network ID is 302-720.)
Doug08-23-09 04:34 PMLike 0 - Where do you go in the phone to see the ID?
Anytime I scan for networks all it says is Rogers. that's it08-23-09 05:44 PMLike 0 -
- to answer the OP...yes...in short once Bell/Telus turn on their HSPA network they will have better coverage than Rogers.
The simple reason? well Rogers has not taken advantage of covering a lot of rural areas, including the maritimes, this alone makes bell/telus more appealing to folks in those areas.08-23-09 05:55 PMLike 0 - to answer the OP...yes...in short once Bell/Telus turn on their HSPA network they will have better coverage than Rogers.
The simple reason? well Rogers has not taken advantage of covering a lot of rural areas, including the maritimes, this alone makes bell/telus more appealing to folks in those areas.
Here's a suggestion (that would probably had Ted Rogers rolling in his grave, god rest his pioneering soul...) - Rogers should work out a 'roaming' agreement with Bell/Telus for areas where they will have high-speed HSPA coverage and Rogers won't... :-)08-24-09 10:05 AMLike 0 -
Maybe we'll see Rogers make deals with other regional carries to improve coverage.08-24-09 10:14 AMLike 0 - I live in alberta and just did a road trip this past weekend , I stopped quite often ( can't smoke in a rental lol ) i scanned alot of places I stopped . I must say I did see bellus lots . However I was very impressed with the improvement of rogers coverage now .
I take alot of secondary highways when I went and went in to alot of places only a few yrs ago I had no signal at all . Now I had no dead spots whats so ever and even had 3g in towns that are no where near the major citys that have 3g .
The biggest downfall to the new bellus network in my mind is when they have a network issues they will have no service , with rogers at least it will drop to edge then gprs at the worst lol .
I think it's gonna be interesting when the new network goes live .08-24-09 11:05 AMLike 0 - I live in alberta and just did a road trip this past weekend , I stopped quite often ( can't smoke in a rental lol ) i scanned alot of places I stopped . I must say I did see bellus lots . However I was very impressed with the improvement of rogers coverage now .
I take alot of secondary highways when I went and went in to alot of places only a few yrs ago I had no signal at all . Now I had no dead spots whats so ever and even had 3g in towns that are no where near the major citys that have 3g .
The biggest downfall to the new bellus network in my mind is when they have a
network issues they will have no service , with rogers at least it will drop to edge then gprs at the worst lol.
I think it's gonna be interesting when the new network goes live .
Well, at first I thought that was a scary thought. Then I realized that I've been with Telus for 10 years and I can't recall a catastrophic national system outage. Unless the CDMA network has a backup, or different signal/frequency that a Telus device would automatically switch to in the event of an outage???
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com08-24-09 07:46 PMLike 0 - Telus National Coverage Map
Belus has better coverage than Rogers already. Putting new equipment on their existing towers means they'll have better coverage than Rogers on more than one frquency.
Also, I've read that Rogers' HSPA transmitters are 25 Megs, while the Belus ones will be 100 Megs. ( I assume that Meg means Megawatt, similar to FM radio, and a stronger signal will travel farther and penetrate buildings better?)
A. I don't know if this has been confirmed.
B. Can anyone explain what that means?
(I assume that Meg means Megawatt, similar to FM radio, and a stronger signal will travel farther and penetrate buildings better?)
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