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Hey Everybody,
You'll never guess what happened today. I was chillin @ work and Rogers called my phone. They called to ask me what type of phone is was using. I told them I had a t68i and they asked whether or not i had the camera then if i wanted to use the email picture function? Then they told me that i cannot us the picture email with my data plan and that i must upgrade to the $30 data plan or the $50 data plan to send pictures. I could not email pictures even on "as pay as you go" like text messaging. I said "no". Anyways, anybody else get a call?? If so are you using the picture email and does it actually work??? I didn't feel like spending more money. On a function i rarely use... but either way my email still doesn't work....
dragoneye
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Posted: 2002-11-01 03:59:00
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hey hey it does work!!!! i finally got it working!! or shall i say they got it up and working properly...there was issues when it first started... and problems over problem, but now i think is has been sesolved, i have been sending pics like mad, its fun too! anyone wanting to know more, let me know... i can send a pic, plus i've been given 2 months free to use, after its pretty expensive apparently, and i got a question, anyone know if the can switch gateways on rogers?? apparently they say they can't i wanna know if its true, there is a 3K limit download for their gateway, pretty crappy cause i can't get themes or screensavers... but gonna try the bluetooth method tomorrow....
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Posted: 2002-11-01 06:37:00
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so finaly get it working ha
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Posted: 2002-11-01 14:35:00
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i stand corrected, it "WAS" working.... with rogers, its a love/hate relationship, love their coverage, phones, plans etc, really hate their customer service, tech support, if you need anyone there, they know nuttin, i told them stuff they didn't know, i remember back when comdex was here, rogers had a booth up, and the nokia8260 was brand new, the sms msging was working i sope to the person in charge, she didn't even know what i was talking about, till i msg'd her, she was surprised, talk about representing the company... grrrr we should be working for them
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Posted: 2002-11-05 12:33:00
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DragonEye:
850 is the same as 800 because:
The 800 mhz band in North America is set aside for any type of cellular service. Originally this was AMPS but digital went in there eventually too.
1900 mhz is also a band reserved in North America for Cellular. In this case referred to as PCS because it was opened up for digital carriers. There is no reason why you couldn't put AMPS in there if you wanted to, but they don't.
850 simply refers to the portion of the 800-899 mhz band (actually goes a little lower than 800 but you get the point) that is owned by Rogers/AT&T in the states which are deploying the only 850 mhz GSM because they are the only carriers that own specturm in the 800 mhz range that are deploying GSM. All the rest of them came later and only own spectrum in the 1900 mhz band.
In Europe they use 900 mhz and 1800 mhz respectively for the exactly same reasons.
In North America these bands couldn't be used becasue 900 mhz is reserved as an unregulated band (your 900 mhz cordless phone for example) and 1800 mhz has other stuff. (Millitary I think, but don't quote me on that)
Hence why we use different bands than Europe does, but for all intents and purposes it's the same deal, and 800 mhz responds about the same as 900 mhz as does 1800 and 1900.
Why would Rogers/AT&T want to deploy 850? Yes, data congestion in the cities, however its mainly a benefit for AT&T in the states in cities because there are places where they ONLY have 850 mhz bandwidth and not 1900 mhz and their customers would have to roam if they were using a GSM phone.
Further, yes, 800/850/900 mhz does penetrate buildings about 10-20% better (depending on the composition of the walls of the building) than 1800/1900 mhz because of the wave length.
However, if you have a clear line of sight with no obstructions (i.e. even trees screw it up) then 1900 mhz will travel farther in the open air, just as a 2.4 ghz cordless phone will travel farther than a 900 mhz cordless phone. It's only when there is an obstruction that 800/850/900 mhz will penetrate and keep going farther than 1800/1900 mhz.
And since most of us talk on a phone while there are trees/buildings etc. in the way, 800/850/900 mhz is good for those times.
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Posted: 2002-11-11 00:53:00
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SNL nice post!!!Very informative.
However with Rogers AT&T installing $Billions of cash up to todays date for an expansive network of 1900Mhz GSM/GPRS why spend more for Towers and Software IS-95A/B tp accomodate this new 850Mhz bandwidth when their agreement with Ericsson would allow them at a cheaper cost to upgrade either to EDGE bandwidth virtually expanding the users for "Each" tower from 8 to 20, or going to WCDMA?! Just going up to EDGE would lesson the congestion without any interferrance in all of its GSM/GPRS users calls. Also, the reason for Rogers delaying their EDGE upgrade this past summer 2002 is because of the cost of the actually upgrade being too much at the present time. It's still their only option cost effective wise presently. Or am I wrong??
Say SNL welcome to Esato.
The only good reason for anyone with GPRS enabled on their accounts to increase their monthly bills, lol!
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Posted: 2002-11-11 01:54:00
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Thanks, for all the info SNL.
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Posted: 2002-11-11 02:51:00
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So whats the story with email is it up yet? And if so can i email pictures? What do I need to do?
Happy Remeberance day al
SpecialK
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Posted: 2002-11-11 17:43:00
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Email can be sent by using the sms option only as far as I know. type in the email address space then text and it shoudl work.
Rogers phoned me and told me picture email does work but you have to be set up on a "special service" so i don't know if it really works yet or not.
MMS still does not work.
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Posted: 2002-11-12 05:09:00
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Does anyone have problems with their SE signal going up and down and not able to make calls?
As well any idea where there are SE service centers in Canada which can do flashing etc.
Cheers
Johann
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Posted: 2002-12-12 21:58:00
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