Snickerdo
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| CDMA phones and providers suck, end of story.
Telus did the exact same thing with their version of the V710. Yet again one more reason not to buy a CDMA handset. Unlocked GSM handsets are far better than any of the crap you'll get on CDMA.
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cyrus369
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| said by Snickerdo  :Telus did the exact same thing with their version of the V710. Yet again one more reason not to buy a CDMA handset. Unlocked GSM handsets are far better than any of the crap you'll get on CDMA. maybe so, but i like having a signal when i need it. around here if your outside of the city gsm signal is non existant. i remember i was at a party awhile back out in the mountains and some guy tried to jump over our fire pit and he fell in(lol he tripped before he even got off the ground and slid right in) and low and behold all the att and tmobile phones didt work. only my verizon phone did, granted it was analog but hey its better than nothing.
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Snickerdo
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| said by cyrus369 :maybe so, but i like having a signal when i need it. around here if your outside of the city gsm signal is non existant. i remember i was at a party awhile back out in the mountains and some guy tried to jump over our fire pit and he fell in(lol he tripped before he even got off the ground and slid right in) and low and behold all the att and tmobile phones didt work. only my verizon phone did, granted it was analog but hey its better than nothing. See, Rogers has had their entire analog network overlaid with GSM 1900 since 2001, but didn't really get going until 2002/2003 when they threw on GSM 850. I can get a GSM signal anywhere there is a CDMA signal, and I can even get a GSM signal along Lake Erie where my parent's Bell Mobility CDMA/AMPS phones can't even get analog. Things are quite a bit different between Canada and the USA when it comes to coverage. The fact that you guys have commercials with a guy going around saying 'Can you hear me now?' proves that 
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cyrus369
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| said by Snickerdo : said by cyrus369 :maybe so, but i like having a signal when i need it. around here if your outside of the city gsm signal is non existant. i remember i was at a party awhile back out in the mountains and some guy tried to jump over our fire pit and he fell in(lol he tripped before he even got off the ground and slid right in) and low and behold all the att and tmobile phones didt work. only my verizon phone did, granted it was analog but hey its better than nothing. See, Rogers has had their entire analog network overlaid with GSM 1900 since 2001, but didn't really get going until 2002/2003 when they threw on GSM 850. I can get a GSM signal anywhere there is a CDMA signal, and I can even get a GSM signal along Lake Erie where my parent's Bell Mobility CDMA/AMPS phones can't even get analog. Things are quite a bit different between Canada and the USA when it comes to coverage. The fact that you guys have commercials with a guy going around saying 'Can you hear me now?' proves that try that over here in the us, gsm seems to stay within the city limits.
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Snickerdo
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| said by cyrus369 :try that over here in the us, gsm seems to stay within the city limits. I have. Mind you, I never leave the Interstate, but I've had decent GSM coverage along I-90 from Buffalo to just east of Erie, PA. I've also had coverage throughout most of rural Niagara County, NY, even on the backroads.
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| said by Snickerdo : said by cyrus369 :try that over here in the us, gsm seems to stay within the city limits. I have. Mind you, I never leave the Interstate, but I've had decent GSM coverage along I-90 from Buffalo to just east of Erie, PA. I've also had coverage throughout most of rural Niagara County, NY, even on the backroads. i have too, after driving to nevada and california from colorado i refuse to take any phone that does not have analog coverage on it, until gsm is more widespread i will not be using it.
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Snickerdo
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| said by cyrus369 :i have too, after driving to nevada and california from colorado i refuse to take any phone that does not have analog coverage on it, until gsm is more widespread i will not be using it. Up here, we have more digital than analog coverage  The only advantage with analog is if you have a large analog bag phone, like a licensed 7W unit. Our GSM phones are 2W in 850MHz.
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en102
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| Just try getting any sort of GSM signal between Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Thunder Bay - I know there is none 
Unfortunately there's AMPS and some areas of CDMA on Superiorwireless |
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Snickerdo
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1 edit | said by en102 :Just try getting any sort of GSM signal between Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Thunder Bay - I know there is none Unfortunately there's AMPS and some areas of CDMA on Superiorwireless Superior Wireless isn't CDMA, it's either TDMA or GSM, because Rogers has a roaming agreement with them for Northwestern Ontario.
I do know that on Highway 11 between North Bay and Timmins, there was GSM coverage. It died out once or twice for a while on the drive, but there was certainly access if you were in the right spot of the middle of nowhere.
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en102
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Valencia, CA | The last time that I spoke with SuperiorWireless, they stated that they were upgrading their AMPS to digital CDMA. |
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Snickerdo
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| The information I had said that they were already a TDMA shop, but that may have just been speculation based on the fact they were a Rogers roaming partner. Still, even if they're running IS-136 right now, upgrading to CDMA wouldn't be unheard of. Bell Mobility did that back in the 90s, and US Cellular is doing it in the USA right now.
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