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I noticed that as of last week I can't get a FIDO signal on my phone
either (in west island) and i get rogers only. I hope they won't be
charging us roaming for their drop in service...
Any ideas?
In article <1117921232.432d18306b76993340d90e2067068949@teranews>,
jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com says...
> A 4 legged furry CSR confirmed to me that where I live, the Microcell
> tower was turned over to Rogers yesterday, and I am in the west island
> of Montreal. It seems that october was the target for downtown montreal,
> but around downtown Montreal they've already begun the conversion.
>
> Yesterday, I was on Fido doing GPRS on the bus, and then at Dorval, lost
> signal. Did a network search and no Fido. Had to enable automatic
> network switch on my phone (which I had disabled so I would still have a
> picture instead of the really bad
www.fido.ca text).
>
> So, from now on, in Montreal, one cannot have a phone configured to
> stick to Fido. It really needs to have the ability to switch to Rogers.
>
> Just tried my old 6190 and it seems to work on CAN 72. (Rogers).
>
> What the 4 legged CSR told me was strange though. He said that once
> network integration would be done, we would again get Fido network
> signals. Has anyone else heard that ? (That seems to be at odds with
> everything else I had heard).
>
> Does anyone know if it is technically possible to tell the Siemens M55
> to consider Rogers the home network so that the behaviour of the home
> network could be maintained ?
>