Re: Cellular telephone service

Thanks for your replies. I rarely leave town, so it looks like Rogers
will be the best bet for me. However I would still like to hear what
this so called "Virgin" has to offer ;).

Reid

Dick Groot wrote:
> 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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Received on Fri Sep 1 16:23:57 2006