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bob
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Post Number: 18
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 12:19 pm: | 
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Does anybody in Temagami have a cell phone plan with rogers and if so, how is the reception? |
kim
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Post Number: 210
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 2:39 pm: |
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Apparently Rogers discontinued analog service in Temagami?
Digital only
Could just be a rumour?
Bell is discontinuing analog service Nov 1/08
Fact |
mytemagami
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Post Number: 2
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 2:53 pm: |
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Rogers is discontinuing analog service for Pay as You Go (aka PRAY as you go) customers. This will likely include regular analog subscribers.
They are sending out digital phones to analog customers. I won't know until this weekend if there is digital service in Temagami though. |
curly
Member
Post Number: 114
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 22, 2008 - 1:31 pm: |
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I currently have a Rogers plan, and there is basically no service in Temagami South. I kinda live on a hill, and I get good service at home, but if I'm downtown, forget it. Don't know about Temagami North. |
irishfield
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Post Number: 161
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 22, 2008 - 10:55 pm: |
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Rogers coughed up analog to all customers back in June and I had to upgrade to GSM (as did all customers as analog was supposibly cut off). That said I called my wife while sitting on my sled at the broom islands last Sunday in a snow storm. I get a really good signal out there and call her all summer long from there when I'm gonna be late for supper when the fish is bitin. In my cottage, on Island 30, I'm hit and miss. No signal anywhere up past the hub in the North and North West arms. I imagine it works pretty well in the south arms since the tower appears to be on the access road area. |
bob
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Post Number: 19
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 8:52 am: |
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Thankyou for your input. I have been with Bell for afew years and have recieved a signal in afew spots in the south arm. Bell has really gone down hill lately in alot of ways so I am considering going to Rogers |
scox
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Post Number: 6
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 - 8:40 pm: |
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I've done quite a bit of research on the Bell vs. Rogers issue and found that accurate information on the subject is hard to come by. Rogers is more forthcoming than Bell with information.
Bell uses CDMA technology while Rogers uses GSM. Technically, GSM is a better technology for Temagami because the signal level with CDMA degrades with the number of users on the system. You will probably find, as I have, that both services are comparable during the off-season but that GSM performs better during the summer.
Otherwise, both companies use the same cellular towers, but in that area both towers are owned and maintained by Rogers. Bell simply leases 'space' on these towers and it's reasonable to assume that Rogers would reserve the higher, more range producing portion of he tower for themselves.
In any case, promoting the development of a new tower in the area to cover Temagami involves building the market of the company that is actually investing in the region, and that is Rogers.
Experientially, I got 1-2 bars off my old Bell analog bag phone, and I get 3 bars off my normal Rogers GSM phone with a Wilsons 30 db cellular booster.
So there is no easy consumer-grade solution to getting a cellular signal.
In my experience, both providers are about the same in the off-season, but come summer, GSM technology is better.
Both towers are owned and maintained by Rogers and Bell leases tower and rack space t |
greg
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Post Number: 13
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 12:26 pm: |
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I could write a long story about how I got to where we are now. Here is the readers digest version! I am with Rogers and two years ago purchased a booster from the Rogers store in North Bay.I also needed a small car arial to connect the booster to.The phone has a port for this booster It worked well with my Motorola phone. When I went to update my phone I was told that new phones don't have the port for the booster!! So I kept my old phone and now simply move the sim card betwen phones for use at the island. It is a 12 volt booster that truckers sometimes use.I get dependable service from Lake Obashkong [north of Cassels] with a samll arial and this booster. Hope this helps. |
dave
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Post Number: 125
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 12:41 pm: |
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wouldn't the booster only work well depending on the output power of the handset? they vary, so theoretically, wouldn't the booster strength also vary?
and i'm surprised you get dependable strength with rogers...i used to work for them and found their signal strength to be sketchy.
(Message edited by dave on April 24, 2008) |
kim
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Post Number: 216
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 1:27 pm: |
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The booster takes your hand held device from .5 watts to a full 3 watts ...when required.
Bell Cell analog will be obsolete next November in the Temgagami area.
Now I see from daves post above that Rogers is sketchy?
Dave
Was your Rogers phone analog or digital? |
dave
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Post Number: 126
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 2:03 pm: |
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i'm on telus, never owned a rogers phone, never will...when i worked for rogers, in the training they tried to tell us that they get reception in places they don't..their phones are the best by far, but their service is second to telus overall |
greg
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Post Number: 15
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 10:28 pm: |
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Kim's comments fit my experience. For the past two summers we have had consistant coverage I can count on. The challenge now is to find a phone that has the booster connector. Greg |
gsesmart
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Post Number: 3
Registered: 09-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 2:31 pm: |
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We have a place at High Rock and have never been able to get either Rogers or Bell cell service unless we climbed High Rock (3-4 out of 5 bars).
Recently, we installed a cell phone booster or wireless extender (see link below). On my blackberry, I now yet 4-5 bars EDGE service at the cottage. This, after I installed a directional antenna on the roof of the cottage facing Temagami.
Here's the problem. The wireless extender in effect "traps" the incoming signal, but can't boost the outgoing. Thus, I use the extender principally to send and receive emails, which seems to work fine. Using the cell phone is more problematic, since the fact that the signal fades in an out means you can only hold a phone conversation for 30 seconds or so until it drops.
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools /item-details.asp?EdpNo=1829800&csid=_25 |
dalkeith
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Post Number: 1
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 - 12:09 am: |
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I am on located in the South end. This summer I am going to attempt amplifying my cell signal with a Yagi Antenna. My provider is Bell. However anyone know if Bell uses the 800mhz or 1900mhz frequency so I know the proper antenna to buy? Thanks, Rob. |
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