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Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford

Actually Rogers can control that as well.

You know how their ads say "Canada's most reliable network"? That is technically true because they have the fewest dropped calls.

The reasoning behind that is as I am sure you know, towers have a certain capacity for the number of calls going through them. Rogers has chosen to cap that so that every single call on the tower is guaranteed to go through.

Bell and Telus don't have that cap, so their towers will TRY to put every call through, but some may drop. Bell and Telus can continue with that with the new towers as well; depends if they want to get into a pissing contest with Rogers over that claim or not however.

This makes no sense. If the amount of calls is capped how can every call go through? The only reason a call is dropped is because you go out of service range, it has nothing to do with the amount of people on that particular tower.

When the max amount has been reached on one tower it will not allow any further phone calls to go through, which in turn will give you "the network is busy please try your call again" but this does not happen with Telus/Bell because of the CDMA. This is why Telus/Bell can afford to pawn off tower space to the Virgin Mobiles of the world, they have the room because the capacity is so much higher.

I know an Executive with Rogers and he has told me on many occassions that the line "Canada's most reliable network" is actually just a marketing line just like Bell is "Making HD Better" when in fact they have been actually compressing the HD signal to technically make it "worse".