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In message <43037DC8.4195476C@teksavvy.com> JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> wrote:
>On the 138 (north shore), Montréal to Trois Rivières is all Fido Basic.
>Not a big surprise since highway 40 (which Fido covered) is never too
>far from the 138.
>
>On the 132, (south shore) from Trois Rivières to Québec, it is also all
>Fido Basic (in the places I checked anyways). This is interesting
>because this was not covered since Hiwghway 20 (which Fido covered) is
>quite far from the St-Lawrence.
>
>
>So it seems to me that Rogers has been generous in its allocation of
>which towers are Fido-basic and which are Fido-extended. My guess is
>that they are doing this not on a tower by tower basis, but perhaps more
>likely on some regional hub basis. For instance, if the towers covering
>the 132 are connected to the same hub that also serves the 20, then both
>would be fido basic. It would be interesting to know for sure how they
>worked the decision of what was and what wasn't fido basic.
>
>(The above assumes that *#123# actually works and doesn't just always
>report "Fido basic" :-)
They're probably trying to include areas that may or may not have been
covered just to avoid complaints about the service. Lets face it, the
whole basic vs extended is basically a cash cow for Rogers anyway.
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