Windmobile.ca Launched

[2.2vtec]

If you were with fido with a calgary number and you were in montreal don't you pay roaming anyways when using your phone plus long distance?

[spike98]

Originally posted by blownz
I am dissapointed about the phones not working with other carriers. I was hoping to be able to buy a $450 Bold in Calgary this weekend and hook it up to Telus for my wife.

Really shows you how Telus is ripping people off with the $650 no contract price.

Why wouldnt it....the BB 9700 is a quad band phone.

Straight from the BB website

Wireless Networks

3G (HSDPA) compatible
UMTS: 2100/1900/850/800 MHz (Bands 1,2,5/6), 2100/1700/900 MHz (Bands 1,4,8)
GSM: 1900/1800/900/850 MHz
Quad-band support: GSM 850; GSM

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices...ifications.jsp

[Mibz]

Pretty sure I've -always- started roaming as soon as I was out of Alberta.

[hks]

in the next few weeks, wind will be able to port phone numbers

[Godfuader]

What I absolutely hate with the Canadian providers is roaming. How can you still charge for roaming if I go to Red Deer?? There should be no roaming in this country as long as you are in a major city. Maybe charge roaming if im up in Nunavut but charging for long distance as soon as im out of sight of the Calgary Tower?? All US providers have nation-wide as their local.

[msommers]

Originally posted by Mibz
Pretty sure I've -always- started roaming as soon as I was out of Alberta.

For calling, yes. Telus rep told me, as I asked specifically, that texting and using the internet did not go towards roaming. This is when I had a regular phone. With a smartphone, using data might constitute roaming, not sure on that one.

[Mibz]

Originally posted by msommers


For calling, yes. Telus rep told me, as I asked specifically, that texting and using the internet did not go towards roaming. This is when I had a regular phone. With a smartphone, using data might constitute roaming, not sure on that one.

I can confirm that data does count as roaming, my phone told me so :P. I was in Toronto a couple weeks ago and didn't have the balls to check my e-mail as I didn't want to risk spending $12/MB.

[GQBalla]

Originally posted by spike98


Why wouldnt it....the BB 9700 is a quad band phone.

Straight from the BB website



http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices...ifications.jsp

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1601281

somehitng bout how 3g is locked to awg frequency or something

im looking to see why it won't work...sigh save me 200 bucks

EDIT***

found out the bb 9700 that Wind will be selling does not operate on the awg frequency for 3g

[blinkme_210]

Originally posted by spike98
Why wouldnt it....the BB 9700 is a quad band phone.

Wind 9700 Bold is locked to AWS.

[Vagabond142]

Still, Wind does have one of the best Blackberry plans out there.... $35 unlimited data on top of a voice plan (so if you don't use it at all as a phone or only very light usage, get the $15 chat plan) o_O

(and realistically, unless you're on a high end media phone, you really won't push more than 2-3gb a month anyways)

[rumeo]

There's no such thing as data or text roaming while you're within Canada...

[Vagabond142]

Wind is launching today in Calgary

AFAIK, these are the the Blockbuster's where the Kiosks are located:

Calgary Blockbuster Kiosks
7740 18th St E, Calgary
380 Canyon Meadows Dr SE, Calgary
62 Saddletowne Cir NE, Calgary

Of those, the most accessible one I think is the Canyon Meadows store, as it's the closest to an LRT.

I think the Wind store on 17th will also be open for launch, not sure though

1013 17 Ave SW Unit 109

[Vagabond142]

Other news (important for those wanting to use something like a Nokia N900 or some such):

SIM only activation is coming soon!
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1602077

[8Ball]

Originally posted by blinkme_210

Wind 9700 Bold is locked to AWS.

cant a guy just unlock it?


The 'Home' thing kills it for me

[scat19]

Originally posted by 8Ball
The 'Home' thing kills it for me

lmao, not home as in your house.

Home area as in your local calling area.

Like rogers, step out of Calgary, it'll start to be LD.

Calgary coverage map is weak:



Red is current, yellow is expansion.

[msommers]

Telus has never charged me long distance when I was Airdrie or Chestermere. Are you sure that isn't Roger's current calgary coverage area, Scat?

[Vagabond142]

You also have to keep in mind. This is Day 1 for Calgary, and Day 3 for the entire network. Give em a little time to get their legs I'm *fairly* sure that the Calgary greater area (Chestemere, Cochrane, Airdrie, etc) are already considered as local areas. If not, they will be very quickly, because one of the things that Wind has banged on non-stop about is covering areas "where people live and where people work."

They've also stated (quite rightly so) that building a network from the ground up is a time consuming and extremely expensive venture (hence the foreign guarantors on their debt). They're doing rapid deployments for Toronto, Calgary (arguably the two most wired and gadget whoring cities in Canada), Edmonton, Ottawa and Vancouver. They have said in the next 12-24 months they hope to also cover Victoria, Saskatoon, Regina, and the Maritimes, as well as spread to the medium sized cities on the Rogers towers until they can get their own built there. They are being very intelligent in how they are deploying, hitting the two largest markets first, the next highest markets next, and THEN focusing on the tiny towns in the middle of nowhere.

I for one am actually really excited for them. This has been many years coming, and I think they really do have a solid chance at taking a good chunk of the network share from Rogellus. In fact, their stated goal is 1.5 million Wind users by the end of fiscal 2010 (very attainable, I think)

[Vagabond142]

SWEET! One of the dedicated retail stores is right down the hill from me!

http://care.windmobile.ca/Support/St...spx?StoreID=99

[msommers]

Vagabond, you're gonna have to buy a sponsorship pretty soon.

[Mibz]

Originally posted by rumeo
There's no such thing as data or text roaming while you're within Canada...

Maybe for normal phone data but my Treo was roaming in Toronto.