the scam that Belus have currently is that their coverage requires both piggy backing and roaming. so yes you will have less dropped calls...but every time you drop your 3g signal you will roam on rogers edge, the scam is that rogers is allowing it and nobody is changing their prices.
in the end it is you who pay more cause Belus has to pay rogers for edge bandwidth so the calls do not drop.
err no.. you will not fall back to 2g via rogers.. EVER!.. with telus/bell sim cards.. you will be on their 3g hspa network, and thats it! ... it will not fall back to edge of any sort.
check howardforums to verify, they have loads of great info on mobile networks
sorry bud its already been verified. not hard to prove either as telus customers all over have been reporting their phones going into roaming status. all of these phones have 2g enabled. unless thay are manually turned off and set to 3g only they will roam the rogers network. fortunately for rogers Belus customers are too stupid to know any difference....which is why they chose a lousy carrier to start with.
Telus doesn't have a 2G network as they didn't build up from EDGE to GSM like Rogers did. Telus only has an HSPA/HSPA+ network (as does Bell), running alongside their CDMA/EVDO network - which are technologically incompatible. And, I can't see any Belus phone switching to Rogers on roaming, simply because Belus has more coverage area than Rogers when it comes to 3G - if you're in an area where you can't get Belus 3g, you're definitely not going to Rogers.
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the scam that Belus have currently is that their coverage requires both piggy backing and roaming. so yes you will have less dropped calls...but every time you drop your 3g signal you will roam on rogers edge, the scam is that rogers is allowing it and nobody is changing their prices.
in the end it is you who pay more cause Belus has to pay rogers for edge bandwidth so the calls do not drop.
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err no.. you will not fall back to 2g via rogers.. EVER!.. with telus/bell sim cards.. you will be on their 3g hspa network, and thats it! ... it will not fall back to edge of any sort.
check howardforums to verify, they have loads of great info on mobile networks
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sorry bud its already been verified. not hard to prove either as telus customers all over have been reporting their phones going into roaming status. all of these phones have 2g enabled. unless thay are manually turned off and set to 3g only they will roam the rogers network. fortunately for rogers Belus customers are too stupid to know any difference....which is why they chose a lousy carrier to start with.
@(Unverified)
Telus doesn't have a 2G network as they didn't build up from EDGE to GSM like Rogers did. Telus only has an HSPA/HSPA+ network (as does Bell), running alongside their CDMA/EVDO network - which are technologically incompatible. And, I can't see any Belus phone switching to Rogers on roaming, simply because Belus has more coverage area than Rogers when it comes to 3G - if you're in an area where you can't get Belus 3g, you're definitely not going to Rogers.