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Originally Posted by CFENT
I work for Bell so I should be able to answer this.
Bell and TELUS share towers. ie TELUS built western Canada and Bell built eastern Canada. While Bell and TELUS are waiting for Saskatchewan and Manitoba to be built Bell is roaming off another provider allowing your HSPA phones to work in these provinces.
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And I work for TELUS. Here's my input:
Saskatchewan is leaps and bounds ahead of all the other provinces in terms of telecom, because their telecom company is still publicly run, SaskTel is a crown corporation.* TELUS owns no towers in Saskatchewan, nor do they lease any from Sasktel. Apparently, Bell does.
In Manitoba, it used to be the same way, but in 2004 Allstream bought it up from Manitoba and now it's MTS Allstream. Still, the same situation applies. TELUS owns no towers nor leases any in Manitoba.
East of Manitoba: Bell Territory. They scratch our back.
West of Saskatchewan: TELUS Territory. We scratch theirs.
The information in this post is my personal opinion based on my own knowledge, and may or may not be 100% accurate. It should not be taken as official from TELUS or TELUS Mobility, even if completely accurate.
* = I say this with a hint of sarcasm because telecom companies as crown corporations are a double-edged sword. Within their own provinces, there is absolutely nothing better than a government run phone company. The days of AGT were some of the best Telecom days this province has ever seen. However, this dampers interprovincial progress in terms of things like wireless information transmission. One province does things one way, another province does them another. Both work perfectly fine independently, but cannot work interdependently, like if everyone in B.C. spoke English and everyone in Alberta spoke French. We'd work just fine amidst ourselves, but wouldn't be able to understand anything our neighbor says. Basically, I'm of the opinion that all of Canada's telecom should be a federal crown corporation and let that be the end of it.