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Originally Posted by HOOT
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".
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Essentially Rogers has the option of trying to push more calls through their tower, just that those calls have no guarantee that they will not drop - so Rogers said screw it, we won't let those calls go through. - hence the "most reliable network" adverts. Rogers actually has to prove that in some way, or they do open themselves up to legal action - I was just saying how they do it.
CDMA is dying, all of the US providers are switching over, so it would be absolute lunacy for Telus and Bell to stay with that technology. Also, let's not forget how much $$$ Telus and Bell are giving up to Rogers for all the roaming fees from people visiting Canada from out of country. It will not be a surprise when Vancouver is one of the first Cdn cities to get the new GSM towers, and I will further bet it will be in place before 2010.... wonder what that would be???
Good news is for all the Rogers users is that they will finally have a choice where to take their iPhone, Bold, etc. and it is only going to further increase the competition.
Interesting times ahead in the Canadian Cellular industry.