How do you like Wind? - Shaw Purchases Wind

[stampsx2]

Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo

12-Months Total Cost: $378.79
Average Monthly Cost: $31.57

Wind is one of the few consumer choices I've made that gets better with time. I'm even happier today than I was 3, 6, 9, 12 months ago. There's NO reason for fence sitting.

I feel the same way everytime i get my bill and see $42 with no mystery charges. My favorite's when someone on rogers needs to use my wind phone cause they have no service.

[bossy22]

Would it be worthwhile since I live in Cochrane and spend a lot of time in Bragg Creek, Canmore and Whitefish or is something like Koodo the better choice. I'm not sure how the roaming works for Wind and that's why I've stayed away.

[moon]

Originally Posted by stampsx2

I feel the same way everytime i get my bill and see $42 with no mystery charges. My favorite's when someone on rogers needs to use my wind phone cause they have no service.

When does this happen?

How is it that people with these cut rate plans always talk about how they get great service and people with others are always using their phone cause they don't have it?

I work in the oil field and have Rogers and rarely lose coverage and talk to others with Rogers or Telus and rarely hear them complain about coverage.

Maybe I am going to the lucky places or I talk to the lucky few that get coverage but these coverage issues seem way overblown by former customers/little guy phone users.

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by stampsx2

I feel the same way everytime i get my bill and see $42 with no mystery charges. My favorite's when someone on rogers needs to use my wind phone cause they have no service.

I'm with Rogers and my sisters are with Wind. I will bet my life savings (ok, ok, that isn't betting much) that my sisters are at least ten times more like to need to use a different phone because they can't get service than me on Rogers.

Rogers does suck balls, but let's not get carried away. The service Rogers offers is far superior to what Wind has.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by moon

When does this happen?

How is it that people with these cut rate plans always talk about how they get great service and people with others are always using their phone cause they don't have it?

I work in the oil field and have Rogers and rarely lose coverage and talk to others with Rogers or Telus and rarely hear them complain about coverage.

When I moved back to Calgary I was on Telus and my phone lost coverage as much (sometimes/rarely) on Telus as I do now with Wind.

Talking to people about their own cell phones plans are like talking about commute times, it's almost impossible to get real answers.

[TurnedTheCorner]

Originally Posted by Iginla

Rogers does suck balls, but let's not get carried away. The service Rogers offers is far superior to what Wind has.

What did you just say about not getting carried away?

[MrMastodonFarm]

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...nd#post3388425

Originally Posted by puckluck

Wind has awful reception and drops many calls. So many times I'll call my sister who is with Wind and it would say her phone is unavailable even though she's at home. I'd stay away from them.

Originally Posted by Iginla

I'm with Rogers and my sisters are with Wind. I will bet my life savings (ok, ok, that isn't betting much) that my sisters are at least ten times more like to need to use a different phone because they can't get service than me on Rogers.

hehehehe

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Iginla

I'm with Rogers and my sisters are with Wind. I will bet my life savings (ok, ok, that isn't betting much) that my sisters are at least ten times more like to need to use a different phone because they can't get service than me on Rogers.

Rogers does suck balls, but let's not get carried away. The service Rogers offers is far superior to what Wind has.

Umm doesnt wind roam on rogers towers..... therefore if you get rogers service wind should too. Now it might have been they didnt want to pay roaming but if you got a signil they should have too

[GGG]

Originally Posted by bossy22

Would it be worthwhile since I live in Cochrane and spend a lot of time in Bragg Creek, Canmore and Whitefish or is something like Koodo the better choice. I'm not sure how the roaming works for Wind and that's why I've stayed away.

Not yet winds network is limited to calgary so you would be roaming all the time and therefore spend more money

[To Be Quite Honest]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...nd#post3388425




hehehehe

He also went back to his old posting ways. Pucky was getting much better at discussion but now that he's under the Iginla handle it seems like he's just masturbating again.

Also "Iginla" as a handle should be a calgarypuck bylaw no no.

[WilsonFourTwo]

Originally Posted by moon

How is it that people with these cut rate plans always talk about how they get great service and people with others are always using their phone cause they don't have it?

We've become so conditioned to ridiculous pricing and now described ~$35 a month service as "Cut Rate".

Originally Posted by moon

Maybe I am going to the lucky places or I talk to the lucky few that get coverage but these coverage issues seem way overblown by former customers/little guy phone users.

The reality is that ALL carriers have excellent coverage within the urban areas. And yes, Wind piggybacks on Rogers' network for roaming.

I stand by my statement from several weeks ago. If your use is primarily (80%) urban, you'd be silly not to switch to Wind. If you work out of town and using a lot of voice/data, a Big Three is still the way to go.

[CFENT]

Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo

We've become so conditioned to ridiculous pricing and now described ~$35 a month service as "Cut Rate".



The reality is that ALL carriers have excellent coverage within the urban areas. And yes, Wind piggybacks on Rogers' network for roaming.

I stand by my statement from several weeks ago. If your use is primarily (80%) urban, you'd be silly not to switch to Wind. If you work out of town and using a lot of voice/data, a Big Three is still the way to go.

Wind only piggybacks on Rogers outdated 2G(GSM) network so the coverage is not the same a Rogers/Bell/Telus 3G. You also have to pay a different rate - for voice, data and text- if you roam off Rogers even if you are in the city.

[CFENT]

Originally Posted by stampsx2

If you take a quick look at the "LTE in Calgary, Rogers or Telus" thread you'll notice a lot of posts about reception issues IN the city with rogers especially.

LTE is only data and has no effect on voice. If your LTE cuts out you should fall back to HSPA+ which on Telus and Bell is still way faster then wind.

[stampsx2]

Originally Posted by moon

When does this happen?

How is it that people with these cut rate plans always talk about how they get great service and people with others are always using their phone cause they don't have it?

I work in the oil field and have Rogers and rarely lose coverage and talk to others with Rogers or Telus and rarely hear them complain about coverage.

Maybe I am going to the lucky places or I talk to the lucky few that get coverage but these coverage issues seem way overblown by former customers/little guy phone users.

How is it that people on Rogers or Telus talk about how wind has bad reception and people with wind have lots of bad service and slow speeds (not a shot at you by any means).

I'm not saying wind is perfect, i'm saying rogers isn't as well.

Wind has low or no signal on the fringes of the city, rogers has deadspots (parkland for example) and drops calls once in a while. That's just my personal expieience.

[rayne008]

What does everyone use to measure their mobile data speed?

[secol]

speedtest?

[billybob123]

Speaking of speedtest, has anyone noticed a huge increase in down speed on Wind lately? I hit 8.6 mbps down (0.8 up) this morning.

[rayne008]

Originally Posted by secol

speedtest?

figures.. by the way people were talking, it sounded like there was a mobile optimized site for testing mobile data speeds..

[secol]

there's a speedtest mobile app....

[maidestone]

Made the switch after more than 10 years with Rogers/Fido.

$399 for the Huawei Ascend P1 - Awesome display. Fast, duo-core cpu. Smooth ICS, and $200 less than a Samsung SII. Polaris Office software included too!

$29 unlimited plan. 75-100% signal strength in Panorama Hills just south of Stoney Trail. Over 3mbps download speed.

Nothing to complaint about, so far.