Re: OT: Cellular telephone service

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess that it's the College
of Engineering building. I realize that a few testimonials don't
make a study, but... everyone I've heard complain about not being
able to get reception in there has had a Rogers phone.

My SaskTel phone works great in there :)

On 5-Sep-06, at 2:48 PM, Scott Wunsch wrote:

> On Tue, 05-Sep-2006 at 12:36:08 -0600, Eve Kotyk wrote:
>
>> he works in is concrete (or at least I'm assuming it is). His
>> coworkers can use their cells in that building but he can't. Is
>> this a
>> provider problem or is this a cellphone problem?
>
> It could be either :-). It might mean that all his co-workers have
> phones that use SaskTel's CDMA network, and SaskTel has a closer
> tower.
> Alternatively, it might mean that he has an older Rogers phone that
> doesn't support the 850MHz GSM frequency. 850MHz, being a lower
> frequency, has better in-building penetration than 1900MHz.
>
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Received on Tue Sep 5 15:21:51 2006