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Is Wind/Freedom any good for reception if I live and work in Tri Cities area in BC ?

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Feb 24, 2008
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Is Wind/Freedom any good for reception if I live and work in Tri Cities area in BC ?

I am currently using Virgin Mobile and would like to switch to Freedom if the reception is reliable in Tri-Cities area in BC ??

Any suggestions or comments ??
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Mar 26, 2011
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Toronto, ON
Why are you looking to switch to WIND?
Perhaps Public Mobile might be a better option?
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Apr 5, 2016
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Calgary/Vancouver
It's alright coverage, but there are many tiny dead spots scattered around since they don't have many towers in the area especially Shaughnessy St and some parts of Brunette Ave. Port Moody is pretty spotty if you can get a signal.
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Nov 21, 2008
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North Vancouver, BC
You can roam if the signal is weak, and the roaming charges are very low.

Coverage is actually pretty good in the LM.
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Apr 5, 2016
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Calgary/Vancouver
robertz wrote: You can roam if the signal is weak, and the roaming charges are very low.

Coverage is actually pretty good in the LM.
Sometimes it's not roaming that's the issue. It's the middle ground where there's a faint Freedom tower nearby that it constantly wants to connect which prevents it from going roaming, but that also means that you're getting no reception at all.

Roaming charges aint cheap either except texting. It's 15 cents/min, 5 cents/text, and 5cents/MB. Easily adds up if your area is constantly roaming. Accidentally rack up 1GB on roaming is $50.
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Jan 11, 2017
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Here's some links you can use to look up signal quality of where you will be the most(Home\School\Work). Do NOT trust the Freedom Mobile coverage map as it's a joke and even with these signal indicators most are recorded while outdoors so subtract a bar or possibly even 2 to give an accurate indication of whether you will even receive a signal while indoors as AWS building penetration is god awful. Personally I would only jump on Freedom if I'm in the bright green signal areas of these maps and I'm also getting a greater deal than what the flanker brands are offering.

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