Local Roaming?

[Wojtek]

hdy

Current service provider is Fido (Microcell)

The cell displays the network's name on the top, thus currently I see "Fido".

In the cell options I can manually search and select the network on wich I want to be. Searching gives me 2 results. Fido and Rogers. When I selected Rogers the display would show "SOS calls only" instead of "Fido" and switching back to Fido displayed "Fido". Now thats logic, since Im not a Rogers custumer I cant login to their network, well except for 911 calls for emergency cases. Sometimes my cell would automatically switch by itself to the rogers network when fido signial was low and I was given the "sos calls only" in current network.

3 days ago I was in the park and looked at the time on the cell and noticed "ROGERS" written instead of "Fido". It stayed there for a good 10-15mins and went back to Fido. Since then I'v been seeing ROGERS displayed occasionally. No more SOS Calls Only, but ROGERS. Tried to make a call when on ROGERS and succeeded. Thus im wondering if it's some sort of local roaming? and will I get charged extra for calls when im on ROGERS?

Tried to contact custumer support but got bored listening to the little Please Wait music and hung up heh. Anyone from canada/microcell has the same thing as me? Perhaps conscript has an idea, you work with cells all day long. If nothing I'll go down to Fido Boutique on the weekend, I lost my cell pouch and need to get a new one so I'll ask at the same time :p

[CAWUnited.com]

This past weekend, I went to Quebec with a few people, and while there, their phones switched to show Rogers, which is roaming for their phones. I have a Verizon cell phone that was also roaming, but just didn't show the Rogers. On the way home, they would switch back and forth between Rogers and their own network.. so it seems like just in certain places, it switches back and forth.. maybe because of low signals or something?

[Wojtek]

The first time I noticed my phone on rogers I was in the park outside, no excuse for a low signial there :p

As I said usually when the signial was low it switched to rogers, but instead of showing Rogers it showed "SOS Calls Only". Did perhaps Rogers lift the restrictions on roaming or something? I'm intrigued, it's been years I have this phone with Fido and seeing ROGERS there is just plain special :p


Out of boredom here is photographic evidence:

http://www.cookingpages.com/temp/FIRO.jpg
(added text color is the real color of the phone, mmm powder baby blue heh)


Any gueses on the billing? I will get charged more when on rogers right?

[Space Ghost]

Don't know about the roaming 'cos i'm in the UK but that phone is sexy.

[Wojtek]

Thank You :biggrin2:

Ericsson T39m World
- Icecap Blue color
- Tri-Band GSM
- Bluetooth
- GPRS (wireless inet on pda/laptop)
- WAP
- Infrared (transmit Business Card to client PDA for example)
- and a ----load of other usefull stuff

Sorry, no color screen or mp3 ringtones, im not into that. My ringtone is a normal phone ring singnal heh

Yet despite all this I cannot send an sms to australia, go figure :p

[bozley05]

You can send SMS to Australia and you haven't txt'd me? And to think you were my hero ;) haha

That phone must be way old, Ericsson has been a Sony brand for a good 3 years I think. I have always used and will always use a Nokia phone, trusty little companion. You can throw them at a brick wall and they will still work.

Anywho, roaming... be careful to make calls on roaming, coz if your like some networks here you get charged like double the amount for making a call. Lucky me, I'm on the network with the worst reception and no roaming, but I get a good call rate. Coz I live in a valley, sometimes I have to walk up to the top of my street to make a call, rarely though.

[Wojtek]

boozley, I said I CaNNot :p

The T39 was announced by ericsson on March 21 2001 (http://www.ericsson.com/press/archive/2001Q1/20010321-0039.html) and went on sale couple months after. I imported mine from europe and it has been with me since Feb 18 2002 :p It's the little guy's birthday soon :biggrin2:

As for the sms's perhaps I have the formatting wrong or something
I do +61xxxx, it says message sent but its never delivered, and when I try calling up the number it's my carrier's default message for this number is out of service. Any tips?

[Blank Verse]

This is kind of off topic, but I thought Rogers bought out Fido? Or was that Bell? In any case, if it was Rogers, that might factor in to the explanation somehow.

[Wojtek]

Hum, nobody bough over nobody as far as I know.

Fido is still one of the leaders, introducing the new CityFido plan. Replaces your normal Bell phone line for unlimited both-ways talktime for 45$

Then there's Telus with their anti-fido advertisements :p

Bell trying to get a lil piece of the market

And Rogers

Perhaps you were reffering to "Rogers AT&T" Did AT&T buy Rogers? Dunno, but that name is from a while ago. Perhaps its the same company?

[jmiller]

i can't believe you said 'hdy'.

you rock.

And back on topic, yes, Rogers bought out Fido some time ago.

[bozley05]

boozley, I said I CaNNot :p

Teaches me for glancing over topics without reading them properly, I have a habit of doing that. Sorry, guess it makes up for u not sending SMS ;)

[Blank Verse]

i can't believe you said 'hdy'.

you rock.

And back on topic, yes, Rogers bought out Fido some time ago.

I've actually been using hdy a little bit myself. I'm trying to fully integrate it into my every day vocabulary :)

[bozley05]

Is that hdy as in howdy?? Like cowboy howdy??

Maybe your equivalent to our g'day.

[Blank Verse]

http://hdy.vcic.net/

[jmiller]

http://hdy.vcic.net/
seriously, that is like the greatest thing to ever come out of my hometown. :P

[Blank Verse]

agreed. Actually, isn't Hot hot Heat from the area as well?

[jmiller]

agreed. Actually, isn't Hot hot Heat from the area as well?
Yeah. I used to live in the apartment directly below them.

[bozley05]

I envy your town! All my town is famous for is rich snobby people with clifftop bayside mansions and one of the highest per capita ownerships of BMW's and Mercede's... sadly I'm not one of these people. Been living here since it was a crappy "semi-rural" town with dirt roads. I will make my town famous for something better than materialistic posessions, somehow, not sure how yet.

[Blank Verse]

Yeah. I used to live in the apartment directly below them.


I know...a certain somebody was going to get me some bootlegs a while back, but never did. :p

hdy indeed, heh heh.

[jmiller]

oh yeah, haha. i forgot about that. i'll uhh see what i can do.

[Blank Verse]

ha ha...no worries, of course :p

[Gayowulf]

Rogers bought out Fido in Nov, 2004.

[Daniel]

Wojtek, I get the same thing but...

Rogers = Fido now. Rogers bought over Fido so you can roam on both networks and it should still work without charging you. I believe Fido to Fido also works for Rogers customers too.