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Coverage in Bowmanville

John_N — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 07:09:31 GMT

Does anyone have experience with PM in Bowmanville?

I am finding that the coverage is not great. I have had both Fido and Virgin before without significant issues, but I am finding PM coverage to be very weak in some locations.

For example, I am currently getting signal at -105dbm to -113dbm, which is very low.

I have also experienced this in Burlington over this last weekend.

Is the coverage poor in some towns?

Is it possible I am not set up correctly to use the proper towers or services of PM?

Re: Coverage in Bowmanville

ShawnC13 — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:36:20 GMT

@John_N wrote:
Does anyone have experience with PM in Bowmanville?
I am finding that the coverage is not great. I have had both Fido and Virgin before without significant issues, but I am finding PM coverage to be very weak in some locations.
For example, I am currently getting signal at -105dbm to -113dbm, which is very low.
I have also experienced this in Burlington over this last weekend.

Is the coverage poor in some towns?
Is it possible I am not set up correctly to use the proper towers or services of PM?

Here is a great site that will give you cell tower locations http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/cancellsites.html. What phone are you using? I know you said you have used FIDO and Virgin and had no issues. Virgin and PM would be using the same towers (Bell/Telus) but I am wondering if the phone you are using doesn't have the main bands that PM runs on. Check out compatibility here willmyphonework.net.

Re: Coverage in Bowmanville

will13am — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:02:19 GMT

@John_N, what specific part of Bowmanville are you located in? I have friends who live in town and generally have not complained about poor service. I only frequent the corridor along the highway and don't have coverage issues.

Re: Coverage in Bowmanville

John_N — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:11:07 GMT

From what I can see it should work.

The phone I am using is an ASUS Zenfone 4 Max. It supports the following:

FDD-LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19, 26, 28)

TD-LTE (Bands 38, 41)

WCDMA (Bands 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 19)

EDGE/GPRS/GSM (850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz)

According to Wikipedia, Telus supports:

Frequencies used on the Telus Mobility NetworkFrequency range Band number Protocol Class Status Note(s)

850 MHz CLR	5	UMTS/HSDPA/HSPA+/DC-HSPA+	3G/"4G"	Active	Fallback for calls.
1,900 MHz PCS	2	UMTS/HSDPA/HSPA+/DC-HSPA+	3G/"4G"	Active	Fallback for calls.
850 MHz CLR	5	LTE	4G	Active / Being deployed	Used for extra bandwidth within cities and rural coverage. Only seen in British Columbia.[21]
1,900 MHz PCS	2	LTE / LTE Advanced	4G	Active / Being deployed	Secondary LTE Band being deployed and used for LTE / LTE Advanced coverage.
700 MHz A/B/C/E	12/13/17/29	LTE / LTE Advanced	4G	Active / Being deployed	Mainly used in rural areas / rural coverage.
1,700/2,100 MHz AWS	4	LTE / LTE Advanced	4G	Active	Main LTE Band used across the country. Also being used to provide LTE Advanced coverage.
2,600 MHz IMT-E	7	LTE / LTE Advanced	4G	Active / Being deployed	Found in select markets, but being developed slowly in new markets alongside to provide LTE Advancedcoverage.