"As far as the map, I agree with you and the OP.
As I said in a previous post, the seeming lack of coverage may be due to Bell owning the towers, and not allowing Telus to show coverage, in order to draw potential customers to Bell."
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Short Answer:
That's not true though. The Only difference between Bell and Telus is that Bell has access to BRS 2600Mhz LTE Band 7
The rest of the coverage map details are exactly identical. Also, there is no way that Bell owns the towers in the interior BC - the only place they own towers in the west is far northern B.C. and the Territories.
Long Answer:
From the Pacific Ocean until The Manitoba Border - Telus owns every single tower in the Bell-Telus relationship.
Then Bell owns everything in Ontario, NFLD, NB, PEI, NS
Telus owns the majority (or maybe everything) in Quebec
That's how the agreement works.... because these "turfs" is what they originally are based on...
Bell = Southern Quebec + Ontario + Bell Aliant (NS, NFLD, NB, PEI)
Telus = Rest of Quebec (QuebecTel) + BCTel + AGT (Alberta)
Therefore, their initial CDMA build out back in the day follows these areas...Then Telus purchased Clearnet which gave it a more national tower coverage area
Then When both Bell & Telus wanted to switch from CDMA to GSM, they decided to join together and team up and build out the entire country!
That's why if you have a Bell CDMA phone and you are in interior BC, your phone will actually "roam" on TELUS
If you have a Telus CDMA phone and you are somewhere in PEI, your phone will actually "roam" on Bell
But ever since they went GSM/HSPA - Then they decided to share the Radio on each tower but have seperate base systems. Therefore every single tower manually broadcasts a 302220 for TELUS (koodo/public) and 302610 for Bell (virgin/solo)
That's the long answer for why that assertion is incorrect.
