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  1. #1
    John N B Andrade Andrade Consulting Group Ltd
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    >>> There is a lot of debate about the added value of having Rogers 850
    >>> coverage in addition to the regular Fido 1900 band (see Steve Punter's
    >>> website for his opinion). I understand that having the additional 850
    >>> band may give better coverage in some areas particularly remote rural
    >>> Ontario. On the other hand a phone without 900 will not be able to work
    >>> at all if you try to roam in other countries, e.g. Europe.

    >>
    >> Umm, a phone that doesn't have 900, but does have 1800 will work perfectly
    >> fine in Europe and other countries. The coverage may not be great with
    >> certain providers, but it will certainly work.

    >
    > It's generally true that many countries have 1800 as a choice of
    > networks or secondary networks. There are however some countries that
    > do not have any 1800 networks and only have 900 networks (the original
    > frequency for GSM.) In those countries not having the 900 band is a
    > definite loss that you will notice. Some eastern European countries
    > have no 1800 coverage.


    I use a Fido locked Sony-Ericsson P900 (tri-band 900, 1800, 1900). Because
    of the elimination of the 900 MHz band on the Rogers-Fido integrated
    network, the phone has become somewhat crippled, most notably it is common
    during high phone traffic periods to lose voice audio (both ways) for the
    first 10 to 25 seconds after pressing "send".

    I am considering replacing this phone with Sony-Ericsson's P-910A which
    operates on 850-1800-1900. Any comments? In which countries won't this phone
    work?




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    Brendan McCullough
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    Re: Lack of 900 MHz cripples phones

    John N B Andrade Andrade Consulting Group Ltd wrote:

    >
    >
    > I use a Fido locked Sony-Ericsson P900 (tri-band 900, 1800, 1900). Because
    > of the elimination of the 900 MHz band on the Rogers-Fido integrated
    > network, the phone has become somewhat crippled, most notably it is common
    > during high phone traffic periods to lose voice audio (both ways) for the
    > first 10 to 25 seconds after pressing "send".
    >
    > I am considering replacing this phone with Sony-Ericsson's P-910A which
    > operates on 850-1800-1900. Any comments? In which countries won't this phone
    > work?
    >


    Elimination of the 900 MHz band on the Rogers-Fido integrated network??
    Sorry, you've been misled. Before integration Fido had only 1900 and
    now Fido has access to 850 and 1900. So you haven't lost anything and
    the phone hasn't been crippled. I have experimented with single and
    dual band phones in BC and Alberta and there doesn't seem to be any
    advantage in having access to 850.

    Brendan



  3. #3
    JF Mezei
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    Re: Lack of 900 MHz cripples phones

    John N B Andrade Andrade Consulting Group Ltd wrote:
    > I use a Fido locked Sony-Ericsson P900 (tri-band 900, 1800, 1900). Because
    > of the elimination of the 900 MHz band on the Rogers-Fido integrated
    > network, the phone has become somewhat crippled,


    There was never any 900mhs phones (at least digital) in north america.
    850 and 1900 are used in north america, and 900/1800 used everywhere
    else in the world (with a few exceptions here and there).

    However, i think that the integration did screw up a few phones who now
    had problems scanning different frequencies because I think Rogers
    advertises some 850mhz channels on the 1900s network (or something like
    that). During integration, Fido did announce that a few phones would not
    work in the integrated network because they didn't ignore channels that
    weren't in the 1900mhz band. (or something to that effect).

    Note that Rogers has most of its bandwidth in 850. Fido had much more
    bandwitdh in 1900 than Rogers. They may be in the process of truly
    combining the networks (as opposed to just having Fido towers pretend
    they were Rogers towers) so you may be stuck in areas where there isn't
    much 1900 coverage.



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    Re: Lack of 900 MHz cripples phones

    >> I use a Fido locked Sony-Ericsson P900 (tri-band 900, 1800, 1900). Because
    >> of the elimination of the 900 MHz band on the Rogers-Fido integrated
    >> network, the phone has become somewhat crippled, most notably it is common
    >> during high phone traffic periods to lose voice audio (both ways) for the
    >> first 10 to 25 seconds after pressing "send".
    >>
    >> I am considering replacing this phone with Sony-Ericsson's P-910A which
    >> operates on 850-1800-1900. Any comments? In which countries won't this phone
    >> work?
    >>

    >
    > Elimination of the 900 MHz band on the Rogers-Fido integrated network??
    > Sorry, you've been misled. Before integration Fido had only 1900 and
    > now Fido has access to 850 and 1900. So you haven't lost anything and
    > the phone hasn't been crippled. I have experimented with single and
    > dual band phones in BC and Alberta and there doesn't seem to be any
    > advantage in having access to 850.


    Very Strange! the Fido tech support people - on the phone and at the Erin
    Mills store - as well as Sony Ericsson Tech Support .....AND Fido Customer
    Relations have all told me that the problem with my phone is due to the
    switch to the integrated network which uses 850 MHz as its primary
    frequency. Maybe the quality of Fido's service was better in Ontario and
    Quebec than out west. The fact remains that there appears to be nothing
    wrong with my phone while the network reliability has fallen precipitously.




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