RE: OT: Cellular telephone service

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux@slg.org [mailto:owner-linux@slg.org] On
> Behalf Of Eve Kotyk
> Sent: September 5, 2006 12:36 PM
> To: linux@slg.org
> Subject: Re: OT: Cellular telephone service
>
> I've been thinking of getting a cell phone and it sounds as
> though there is a general lean toward Rogers overall. However
> my husband is with Rogers and I can't reach him at the U of S
> because the building 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. What kind of phone does he have? If he has a TDMA
phone or a single-band GSM phone, that could explain the troubles. If he
has a phone that supports both North American frequencies, then it is a
network problem.

All concrete buildings are going to have signal issues, so one should try
SaskTel in the same building prior to assuming coverage will be fine on that
network. It all depends how close the nearest tower is.

Jim
Received on Tue Sep 5 16:11:50 2006