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Yes.. I can confirm Rogers is down, although mobile data doesnt work for me..
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Aphrodite posted:This is a new one. Canada's Reliable Network
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Oct 10, 2013 00:09
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ja_raul posted:Yes.. I can confirm Rogers is down, although mobile data doesnt work for me.. Yeah, seems data and text depends on region. I get data in Montreal, but no text. A friend further south gets texts.
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Oct 10, 2013 00:20
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did something blow up out east?
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Oct 10, 2013 00:36
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ja_raul posted:did something blow up out east? No. Without an axis it's meaningless. That Rogers chart tops out at 4518, Bell at 45 and the Telus page is down (lol?)
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Oct 10, 2013 01:09
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I can't connect to the network in Victoria, BC. I'm on speakout, which is a Rogers reseller I believe. No voice or texts. I was worried my 8 year old prepaid Nokia candy bar phone might have died, but it lives on!
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Oct 10, 2013 01:14
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Persona non grata posted:8 year old prepaid Nokia candy bar phone might have died Hahaha. Those things will outlive humanity.
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Oct 10, 2013 01:15
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less than three posted:Canada's Reliable Network Done in by their own hubris is a beautiful thing.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:20
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 Only about where 90% of people live. I was gonna pick up my wife late tonight downtown but oh wells. Good thing they took out all the payphones because only drug dealers still used them. Also I am at work until 9:30 and people's lives could depend on me answering. Too bad for them!
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Oct 10, 2013 02:24
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leidend posted:I was gonna pick up my wife late tonight downtown but oh wells. Good thing they took out all the payphones because only drug dealers still used them. Wouldn't that be useful for, uh, catching drug dealers, or am I taking The Wire too seriously?
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eXXon posted:Wouldn't that be useful for, uh, catching drug dealers, or am I taking The Wire too seriously? Catch... drug dealers? I don't think Vancouver cops have funding for that anymore. Plus everyone on The Wire was using burners by the later seasons.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:28
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I saw a guy commenting on that outage site that his wife is due today and he's waiting for the call.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:51
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I'll be in Montreal and Quebec City for two weeks starting on Monday. I've got an unlocked T-Mobile HTC One. All I really need is data while I'm walking around town, but it looks like my options are pretty slim. Anything better than buying a lovely prepaid phone and swapping the SIM card?
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Oct 10, 2013 04:24
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Maultaschen posted:I'll be in Montreal and Quebec City for two weeks starting on Monday. I've got an unlocked T-Mobile HTC One. All I really need is data while I'm walking around town, but it looks like my options are pretty slim. Anything better than buying a lovely prepaid phone and swapping the SIM card? You are in luck: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/9/4821692/t-mobile-announces-unlimited-global-data-roaming-at-no-extra-charge
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Oct 10, 2013 07:09
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Bleusilences posted:You are in luck: Won't take effect until after he gets back though (starts October 31)
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Oct 10, 2013 12:52
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Aphrodite posted:This is a new one. It's fixed, and they're offering a 1 day credit for the outage! That'll be, at most, $4. With a $7 one-day-credit administration fee.
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Oct 10, 2013 15:09
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It's about $1.75 for me.
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Oct 10, 2013 15:48
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I'm pleasantly surprised they are doing a one-day credit. That's pretty good customer service, for them. It's going to cost them an absolute fortune too.
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Lexicon posted:I'm pleasantly surprised they are doing a one-day credit. That's pretty good customer service, for them. It's going to cost them an absolute fortune too. It's the very least they could do.
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yellowcar posted:It's the very least they could do. Oh, absolutely. But this is bizarro-telco-land we're talking about. It would be more in line with their customer-hostile ethos to tack on a "network recovery fee" to every bill, and then otherwise truck on as if nothing had happened.
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Man, I'd hate to have been working in a Rogers store during all that. People would probably have been ravaging those poor sales reps with nothing they could do. Lexicon posted:I'm pleasantly surprised they are doing a one-day credit. That's pretty good customer service, for them. It's going to cost them an absolute fortune too. It's a good kick in the teeth for Rogers. Their ARPU is at least what, roughly $60 or so a month by now? So a day of service equals about $2 on average, multiplied by 9.3 million subscribers, that's a one day loss of $18.6 million dollars, probably closer to 20 million. Sure, they made over 7 billion dollars in revenue last year, but I don't care who you are, that's gotta hurt.
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Oct 10, 2013 21:59
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Don't worry. They'll tack a $1 charge onto your bill for the next year to make up for it. Rogers doesn't give a gently caress about 19mil.
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Nitr0 posted:Rogers doesn't give a gently caress about 19mil. No business, even one of our greedy banks or mobile operators, swallows a $19M unexpected cost incurred over a day without that hurting. If you think otherwise, you don't understand how corporations operate.
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Lexicon posted:No business, even one of our greedy banks or mobile operators, swallows a $19M unexpected cost incurred over a day without that hurting. Even if it is pocket change in the grand scheme of things for Rogers, heads are going to roll over that kind of loss.
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jot posted:Even if it is pocket change in the grand scheme of things for Rogers, heads are going to roll over that kind of loss. Exactly.
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Oct 12, 2013 03:35
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Have they said what the cause was, or is that never going to see the light of day?
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Oct 12, 2013 03:40
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ante posted:Have they said what the cause was, or is that never going to see the light of day? According to MobileSyrup, it was an "unprecedented surge in signaling traffic". Kind of suspicious. Then again, a surge could mean that some hardware went down and other hardware had to take over which wasn't prepared for the load. I have to it admit, it was annoying as my work Blackberry is on Rogers.
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Lexicon posted:No business, even one of our greedy banks or mobile operators, swallows a $19M unexpected cost incurred over a day without that hurting. lol you're so cute.
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Rogers will up all their rate plans by $5 to compensate. Bell and Telus will bring their pricing in line with industry standards shortly thereafter.
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Nitr0 posted:lol you're so cute. As cogent and nuanced as that was, if you have an actual reasoned refutation, I'd love to hear it.
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Lexicon posted:As cogent and nuanced as that was, if you have an actual reasoned refutation, I'd love to hear it. Rogers Wireless made 6.2 billion dollars in the first six months of this year. 19M is not only less than 1 percent of their quarterly revenue, it's only about 10 percent of their growth in the last year alone. Yeah, it's a lot of money and some heads or going to roll, but it's tiny in the scheme of things. And if you don't think they're just going to offset it with a small bump on new contracts (with the others following suit), you're deluded.
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ante posted:Yeah, it's a lot of money and some heads or going to roll,  That was the entirety of my point.ante posted:And if you don't think they're just going to offset it with a small bump on new contracts (with the others following suit), you're deluded. Well I didn't state a view either way on this, so I don't know where this comes from. Yay for reading comprehension.
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I'm looking at jumping from an iPhone to a dumbphone, but I'm not to familiar with the bands and what works where. Does anyone know what carriers I could use a Nokia 515 with in Canada? Edit: WCDMA network: 900 MHz, 2100 MHz WCDMA max data speed DL: HSDPA - 7.2 Mbps WCDMA max data speed UL: HSUPA - 5.76 Mbps GSM network: 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz GSM max data speed DL: EGPRS 236.8 kbps GSM max data speed UL: EGPRS 236.8 kbps WAFFLEHOUND fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Oct 20, 2013 |
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I switched from my Rogers phone to a company phone on Telus so I'm going to be cancelling my family plan thing. I've got my parents on my plan so they're going to have to find their own two-line solution. Any go-to recommendations for two person plans with any particular carrier? They don't need a lot. I think my dad uses a few MB of data every month and my mom doesn't use any data. I doubt they would use even 120 minutes between the two. I'll obviously be doing my own research but if there's a no brainer solution I'm missing please let me know.
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:I'm looking at jumping from an iPhone to a dumbphone, but I'm not to familiar with the bands and what works where. Does anyone know what carriers I could use a Nokia 515 with in Canada? Rogers/Fido/Chatr only. Bell/Telus require WCDMA 850 and 1900. WIND/Mobi require WCDMA 1700. Rogers/Fido require 850 and 1900, either in WCDMA or GSM. less than three fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Oct 20, 2013 |
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Oct 20, 2013 04:44
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Any chance it'll work with Koodo? Or only those three? Thanks, by the way.
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Oct 20, 2013 05:00
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:Any chance it'll work with Koodo? Or only those three? Koodo is Telus, so no. Any of the MVNOs that run on Rogers will be fine. (Fido, 7-11, Petro-Canada, Chatr)
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Checked Fido/Rogers today and hot drat are they stupidly expensive next to Koodo.
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:Checked Fido/Rogers today and hot drat are they stupidly expensive next to Koodo. If you're in a big city and need dumbphone service, Chatr is probably your best bet.
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Is 7-11 Speakout the cheapest carrier for an emergency phone that will at most send a few texts a month? I'm looking for something I can top up and leave for a year, without losing a ton of cash in monthly fees/balance expiry. I'd be interested if there was something similar using the Telus network with the better coverage.
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