When I went over to Calgary, I had a chance to finally utilize my WIND Home zone advantage – since WIND also had a home zone in Calgary, I could use all my services (unlimited calling/data) as if I was still in Toronto.

In theory that’s what would have happened, but it ended up being more frustrating than that.

I had a lot of connection problems. Where I was staying (which was in a major suburbian community) I would have trouble maintaining connection to the WIND network. In fact, it would preferably switch over to the Rogers (i.e., WIND Away) network. I had to manually set my phone to 3G to prevent it from switching to WIND Away!

Once I did that, I was able to use it fairly well – except if I was in a specific room in the house (on the main floor). I could have perfect service (3-4 bars) but if I move 5 steps, then I would have no service at all! I don’t think there was any devices attenuating the signal in that room (it was just a standard living room).

I think there is a ways to go before WIND will have a good network in Calgary. I never had these issues or frustrations in Toronto with WIND, but if I were in Calgary, I may not have switched. Although, maybe I am just having localized problems (I could always see the Mobilicity network fine on a scan), because when I was elsewhere in the city, it seemed to be fine.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: calgary, windmobile