Re: Cellular telephone service

> 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

I live out in the sticks, where only SaskTel provides reasonable
coverage. Their phone selection sucks, and they have been dropping
their analog coverage to make life miserable for anyone who still has
one of the good old Motorola 550's (An analog only phone that had very
good reception, and was rugged as all get out)

Virgin has a contract to use SaskTel systems, so they have the same
coverage, but they are prepaid only. Last time I looked at packages
(about 8 months ago) it was cheaper to go with Virgin, if you were going
o use the phone less than 200 minutes a month, and then cheaper to go
with a SaskTel package if you used it more (I average between 600-800
minutes a month, so I still use SaskTel)

BUZ
Received on Fri Sep 1 16:53:09 2006