Re: Cellular telephone service

I use sasktel, the big brother, but if you plan to use your phone
primarily in the city... Rogers may be what you are looking for.

Corporately we use sasktel. But as stated below the hardware is very limited.

Dick

On 9/1/06, Jim MacKenzie <jim@photojim.ca> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reid Towsley" <rtowsley@gmail.com>
> To: "Saskatoon Linux Group" <linux@slg.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 3:31 PM
> Subject: OT: Cellular telephone service
>
>
> > In the next month or so I would like to buy a cell phone, and while I am
> > sure I can figure out which phone is the right one for me, what I would
> > like to ask is what company should I get my phone service through?
>
> http://www.photojim.ca/cellular.html ... I need to update it a little but
> it's still in the ballpark of being up-to-date.
>
> In short, SaskTel has superior coverage, but Rogers has superior hardware.
> This supposes that the plans are equal, and they often aren't. My corporate
> Rogers plan is hugely cheaper than anything I can get from anyone else, so
> that mitigates the coverage issues.
>
> I use Rogers for my primary phone and I have a prepaid Virgin phone (I don't
> discuss Virgin on the site yet but I will look to update that). Virgin is
> cheap to keep running and that way I have coverage everywhere the SaskTel
> people do, albeit using two phones.
>
> Jim
>
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