Telus iPhone reception at Flames and Stamps Games

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Telus BB user and I've never had any problems.

[ken0042]

Cecil- is your BB CDMA or HSPA?

[Off The Crossbar]

My Telus iphone has been having problems all year at the dome. My wife had a CDMA blackberry curve and her phone worked with no issues. I just got her the new BB torch as an early christmas present (which is a 3G phone) and we were at the hitmen game on sunday and my phone didn't work, and hers worked perfectly!
Maybe it is a problem with iphones...

[Scoopdogg]

I was at the Teddy bear toss on Sunday night in the lower bowl and my iPhone (Telus) worked fine. I was then at the Flames game on Monday night in the 200's and once again I had no issues with my phone.

[FCAV]

Originally Posted by cKy

Ahh, the lower bowl. Where people don't go to watch hockey.

You'll be happy to know I texted away from the 300's against Columbus Monday too.

[jschick88]

I am with Wind and have no problems with sending and receiving texts and using apps such as the score and twitter on my bb.

[Acey]

BB users won't have problems because you are on a different network using different frequencies, and possibly different towers. Telus' new HSPA network also shares towers with Bell further decreasing bandwidth.

[theonlywhiteout]

Originally Posted by Acey

BB users won't have problems because you are on a different network using different frequencies, and possibly different towers. Telus' new HSPA network also shares towers with Bell further decreasing bandwidth.

co8uld be wrong but im fairly certain bell and telus share networks in canada

[Acey]

Originally Posted by theonlywhiteout

co8uld be wrong but im fairly certain bell and telus share networks in canada

They share their new HSPA networks but their old ones are separate I think. The only question is whether or not HSPA towers were built at existing locations of CDMA towers within Calgary, but by its very nature CDMA signals will travel further from a given tower, hence the lack of problems with BB's in this thread.

CDMA devices = All Telus BlackBerry phones
HSPA devices = iPhones, HTC Desire, Milestone

[theonlywhiteout]

yeah they def share the new one but i think they share all networks. telus builds the infrastructure out here and bell piggybacks, and out east vice versa. could be wrong but i heard this a long long time ago back in CDMA days

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Cecil- is your BB CDMA or HSPA?

CDMA

And I should qualify that by saying I only got my phone in June, with my old phone I definitely got good reception.

I've only been to 3 or 4 games this year so my sample size is small.

[Acey]

I checked this site and it's showing a Telus 1900 mhz tower within a block of the 'Dome. There are 2 Rogers towers next to the 'Dome, both with 850 mhz and 1900 mhz. Your phone can use either band, but the lower frequencies penetrate structures better and can travel further (hence Telus' use of mostly 850 mhz outside of Calgary), so I'd bet Rogers people get a lot better reception inside the building.

Same with McMahon; a duplex Rogers tower is literally next door, but the nearest Telus towers are a km or more away, and only 1900 mhz.

[Off The Crossbar]

[QUOTE=Acey;2847038]I checked this site and it's showing a Telus 1900 mhz tower within a block of the 'Dome. There are 2 Rogers towers next to the 'Dome, both with 850 mhz and 1900 mhz. Your phone can use either band, but the lower frequencies penetrate structures better and can travel further (hence Telus' use of mostly 850 mhz outside of Calgary), so I'd bet Rogers people get a lot better reception inside the building./QUOTE]

Maybe all of us Telus people should rally and complain about the reception in the dome. This map helps explain why in my seat I can't call/text/use the internet but when I head out to the concourse at intermission I start to receive texts and my phone works marginally better

[Acey]

I just deal with the inferior reception to BB users. It's the price you pay for HSPA+. Try using a Desire Z on Telus... data is BLAZING fast.

[burning_acid1]

Wind bb user - no reception problems at the dome surprisingly. I have full signal strength and can make calls/text/use data. It's weird - some friends are with Rogers, right next to me, and only have 3 bars.

[Acey]

Originally Posted by burning_acid1

Wind bb user - no reception problems at the dome surprisingly. I have full signal strength and can make calls/text/use data. It's weird - some friends are with Rogers, right next to me, and only have 3 bars.

Not really weird; Wind would be a different tower, but more importantly different frequencies and a network that's probably has more bandwidth available.

[Cowboy89]

My iphone on Telus rarely works at Stamps games or Flames games. Hell, sometimes I notice it not working during rush hours and lunch hours downtown during weekdays, only to magically work in blazing fast speeds the second the Ctrain moves into a less dense area of the city. Clearly it's coorelated to higher density of people and Telus doesn't have the network capacity to sell many more 3G phones. I'm going to start complaining.

[Acey]

There was an article saying that the network has pretty much reached capacity in Calgary, can't remember who wrote it, or if they sourced Telus info at all.

[Off The Crossbar]

Originally Posted by Acey

There was an article saying that the network has pretty much reached capacity in Calgary, can't remember who wrote it, or if they sourced Telus info at all.

That is bad news if they really have reached capacity. I got my iphone last November the first day they went on sale from Telus. The network was pretty fast at that time but I had a lot of reception issues and dropped calls. I hope they do some upgrading soon

[theonlywhiteout]

the more i ask telus iphone users about their experiecne hte more it sounds identical to mine on rogers. sometimes the internet is slow for no good reason on the train, sometimes i drop a call. i think people expect constant perfection with their cells and hvae unrealistic expectations. i havent called rogers once since getting my iphone despite a half dozen dropped calls and the internet cutting out here and there; it's like having a laptop on wifi with you. its not going to be 100% wherever you go