I went to jrmy.net and typed in my postal code with 25 kilometer radius which will cover Vancouver, Burnaby, North Van, new West Richmond and Surrey. The list shows the number of globalive towers listed on that site: Vancouver 35 Burnaby 16 Richmond 7 North Vancouver 4 New Westminster 2 Surrey 10 I'm no expert but Vancouver looks well covered but I don't know the range each tower has so I can't comment on the coverage quality, the rest of the municipalities around Vancouver may have the same problems as Toronto and Calgary with dead spots in the burbs. Surrey is larger than Vancouver but has 1/3rd the towers. I wonder if they used the same strategy in the other cities, where they concentrated on the inner core and minimal towers in the burbs? Can someone from Toronto or Calgary commentCalgarcomment.
Vancouver will need a lot more towers. It's still a work in progress so that's why they won't be launching for another 8 weeks at least.
How many towers are there in Toronto, could someone check jrmy please?
Not greater Toronto just inside.
Not greater Toronto just inside.
I counted 41 towers in Toronto only and Vancouver has 35. It appears that Vancouver may have better coverage than Toronto because I am pretty sure Toronto is much larger than Vancouver. I don't know the sizes of the sub-burbs around Toronto but by the looks of things people in the Vancouver sub-burbs will be upset at the coverage.
Telus has 82 towers within 6 kilometers of my house. There are so many I gave up counting at 6 km. It looks very disappointing when you compare the number of winds to telus's towers. I guess we will hear more of the same. Definitely not for people who need good reception or coverage but for casual users who can get by with the problems until they establish themselves.
Windy, they sure do need many more to be in the same league as rogers or Telus.
@Justa I did a 50 km search of toronto to make sure I covered it all, I now understand the problems they are having. It's going to take a while to catch up and that's why the others have not really budged on pricing yet.
Telus have 50 towers wow in 6km of radius. they might have ruled on customers pockets as I was there client for 1 yr. and gave up by paying extra to give up the contract as they were providing me good service with nice bills.
vick, if you rely on a cell phone for business you would most likely stay with rogers or telus. If you are a casual user you may not care about dealing with the spotty coverage. In the end you will have to make that decision.
Bell has 54 towers within 6 km. Now I know why I had so much trouble with Bell.
You have to divide Telus' numbers by 3 (one each for IDEN, CDMA, HSPA) and Bell's numbers by 2 (CDMA and HSPA). Also noticed that there are multiple towers at the same address/location. You have to get rid of these dups then it'll give you a truer idea of what the tower coverage is like.
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