Re: OT: Cellular telephone service

Good detective work. It is the College building and it appears his co-workers are with Sasktel.

Eve

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Arkles <tony@intrex.ca>
Date: Tuesday, September 5, 2006 3:21 pm
Subject: 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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> > Scott \\'unsch
> >
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Received on Tue Sep 5 15:39:03 2006