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Old 05-30-2010, 06:56 PM   #15
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And you're on Telus?

I'm heading down there two weeks from now. I'll check and see how the coverage is on the #1 highway HSPA wise with Telus. I doubt there is any, but you never know.

Pretty sure its just in Winnipeg. On your map, on the other side of Winnipeg lake just south of Gimli, I worked for for a millwork the past few years, and the EVDO signal from Telus was in and out. Sometimes I got it, sometimes I didn't.

Once you got 'near' Winnipeg it was perfect.
Yeah, right now I am on Telus- but I will be going with Bell for the iPhone. And yeah, Telus' EVDO coverage outside of Winnipeg is pretty crappy. I think it must be the deal they have with MTS- they were able to secure EVDO in the city but not outside.

I was doing some testing at the cabin with a mobile stick, and because I could only get 1X on the Telus stick I was getting 20 kbps speeds. However my brother in law was using his MTS blackberry and was getting an EVDO signal.

My guess is that a big part of all this is how Telus tried to screw over MTS and Sasktel with the "Bell Canada" agreement (or whatever it is called; the sharing of networks.) Because Bell does not try to sell Bell phones in Manitoba, Bell may be in MTS' good books.
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