hi im gonna get a cellphone as i go into 1st year uni
Does Wind work okay in macmaster?
i heard rogers gets messed up sometimes and telus is sort of better than rogers.
im thinking of using the phone line "Wind" any recommendations?

For rogers it's probably because their one tower at mac can't support the sheer volume. Thus resulting in delayed text messages, receiving floods of texts, etc. I'm with fido and that problem dropped after first year. As for Wind I know for sure you can't get service in one building and in basements.

Originally Posted by Leeoku

For rogers it's probably because their one tower at mac can't support the sheer volume. Thus resulting in delayed text messages, receiving floods of texts, etc. I'm with fido and that problem dropped after first year. As for Wind I know for sure you can't get service in one building and in basements.

really? which building is that? like the residence building? or class buildings...??

Rogers works exceptionally well now as they fixed cellphone issues last year with a new tower on top of TSH. I have no idea about Wind.

Wind works pretty well on campus. Reception is pretty bad in MDCL, but I'm fine almost everywhere else, I've never really had too much of a problem with it, plus its super cheap

Originally Posted by Leeoku

For rogers it's probably because their one tower at mac can't support the sheer volume. Thus resulting in delayed text messages, receiving floods of texts, etc. I'm with fido and that problem dropped after first year. As for Wind I know for sure you can't get service in one building and in basements.

Wind doesn't work well in MDCL and ITB (mostly the basement), but works fine pretty much everywhere (including the basements) else on campus.

My friend had WIND and most of the time his phone was the only one out of my group of friends who had decent reception in the res elevators, basements... I'm sure you'll manage

Rogers is amazing Signal wise, 3+ years at mac, I know. But Rogers prices, are piece of crap.

@griffindor interesting my friends still complain about delayed text messages cause I thought it was fixed too.

I've used Wind for two years at Mac now. Like people said MDCL and ITB had issues. I don't get very good signal in the ETB as well, but that's with most cell phone providers in that building.

Everywhere else I have great signal, and it's super cheap so I'm not complaining. However, I've heard different things about the different phones. I'd suggest going with one of the higher end models (Galaxy SIII, Galaxy Nexus or BlackBerry 9900/9790) as the cheaper ones on Wind sometimes have signal issues.

Originally Posted by Leeoku

For rogers it's probably because their one tower at mac can't support the sheer volume. Thus resulting in delayed text messages, receiving floods of texts, etc. I'm with fido and that problem dropped after first year. As for Wind I know for sure you can't get service in one building and in basements.

Fido = Rogers.

As an above poster said, Rogers added a new tower to help with the congestion. WIND has a tower on or around the MUSC/KTH. Like the above posters..I've only had reception issues in ETB, ITB basement and MDCL.

KOODO - do it $35/month unlimited talk and text is what I have! It's no longer available to add but they have great no contract plans!

I'm thinking of switching to wind now though...
just because I seriously need a new phone and koodo's new phones are too expensive :( (plus they don't have the blackberry 9900 which I really want)

This is one of my earlier posts about koodo!
Sorry if I'm spamming!! :s

Koodo is great! I'd definitely reccommend them! I have $35 for unlimited talk/text. Koodo to koodo IS free aswell but since I already have unlimited it's not that great lol. The only dead zone on campus is 3/4 of MDCL 1102 but other than that I haven't had any problems at all even in basement rooms! Do it haha

I have had Rogers/Fido on campus. They are great, would highly recommend them. Wind I had in Guelph, turned out to be terrible and wasted a lot of money, then switch back to Rogers/Fido.