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I'm in Calgary, but potentially moving to Winnipeg in the future. I'm
currently a TELUS Mike user, and looking to switch away from Mike (which
is on a proprietary iDEN platform)
I want a SIM card as I tend to swap handsets frequently and I don't like
TELUS and Bell's "No foreign handset" rules, nor do I like paying my
carrier money to change handsets whenever I pick up a new phone, so I'm
thinking GSM is the way to go. That means either Rogers or Fido.
From what I understand at this point in the merger the signal
strength/reception should be virtually identical at this point, so is
any strong preference on way or the other? Other then rate plans are
there any significant differences?
I'm a fairly low volume user right now, 100-200 minutes a month. Free
incoming calls would be useful, I'd use a lot more minutes that way, but
it's not a big deal.
Looking at my current phone calls, a whole ton of my calls are between
1:00 and 1:30, so per-second billing would be nice, but again, not a big
deal.
I rarely call customer care, and I have a good speaker phone, so I don't
mind longer hold times (although I do tend to rant about hold times
sometimes
I don't roam outside of Calgary much, but when I do, it's typically to
the US (Texas for work), but roaming isn't a big deal, if it costs more
then $0.25/minute daytime and $0.12/minute E&W then I'll just use a
prepaid cell when I'm in the US (I already have the phone and it's only
$20/3months to keep it active, and the airtime accumulates), so roaming
in the US isn't a big deal.
Ideally I don't want to pay extra when I'm roaming in the US, my g/f is
moving from the US to Winnipeg, I don't want to get raped on airtime
when I'm in Winnipeg, but I take my Vonage phone adapter with me so it's
not a big deal.
--
"I think women and sea men don't mix"
-- Smithers, Simpsons
I'm in Calgary, but potentially moving to Winnipeg in the future. I'm
currently a TELUS Mike user, and looking to switch away from Mike (which
is on a proprietary iDEN platform)
I want a SIM card as I tend to swap handsets frequently and I don't like
TELUS and Bell's "No foreign handset" rules, nor do I like paying my
carrier money to change handsets whenever I pick up a new phone, so I'm
thinking GSM is the way to go. That means either Rogers or Fido.
From what I understand at this point in the merger the signal
strength/reception should be virtually identical at this point, so is
any strong preference on way or the other? Other then rate plans are
there any significant differences?
I'm a fairly low volume user right now, 100-200 minutes a month. Free
incoming calls would be useful, I'd use a lot more minutes that way, but
it's not a big deal.
Looking at my current phone calls, a whole ton of my calls are between
1:00 and 1:30, so per-second billing would be nice, but again, not a big
deal.
I rarely call customer care, and I have a good speaker phone, so I don't
mind longer hold times (although I do tend to rant about hold times
sometimes
I don't roam outside of Calgary much, but when I do, it's typically to
the US (Texas for work), but roaming isn't a big deal, if it costs more
then $0.25/minute daytime and $0.12/minute E&W then I'll just use a
prepaid cell when I'm in the US (I already have the phone and it's only
$20/3months to keep it active, and the airtime accumulates), so roaming
in the US isn't a big deal.
Ideally I don't want to pay extra when I'm roaming in the US, my g/f is
moving from the US to Winnipeg, I don't want to get raped on airtime
when I'm in Winnipeg, but I take my Vonage phone adapter with me so it's
not a big deal.
--
"I think women and sea men don't mix"
-- Smithers, Simpsons