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WIND expands coverage, goes live in Niagara
WIND Mobile is continuing their growth by expanding their “Home Zones” coverage. Recently launched in K-W, Guelph, St. Catharines and Welland, today WIND has updated their map and have turned service on in the Niagara region. From the looks of the map there are no active stores, but if you want to pop down to the location at Pen Centre in St. Catharines where you might be able to score a Nokia C7 for $7. In addition, next up in the planned expansion is Barrie and London.
Update: In a press release WIND stated that “The next planned market expansion will take place next month in London, Ontario.”
More here at WIND
(Thanks Carl and Alex!)
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Go Wind, your network rocks and you’ll be giving the Big 3 a run for their money soon.
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When guelph is going to be covered fully. They should atleast fix one area first b4 they launch in other cities
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@Dan J
The problem in your story is her not knowing when she is roaming. I’m not blaming her – I have no idea how her idea indicates roaming – but people need to know when they are roaming.
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One Thing i notice they open new zone but never add to the existing one like between 2 red zone you got a bunch of orange that never turns red? i call that spotty coverage
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Well, the QEW stretch from Grimsby into St. Catharines is now under “planned expansion”, which would pretty much give wind’s customers coverage from about Courtice all the way to Niagara Falls. That’s not effin’ bad at all!
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After their initial launches where they marked off significantly larger areas as ‘home zones’ and subsequently got tons of complaints rolling in, Wind has become a lot more reserved in their coverage claims.
They won’t add areas to the red until they’re really sure that its fully covered. If you check crowdsourced coverage maps like http://www.coveragemapper.com/windmap2.php and check the advertised coverage, you can see there’s a lot of the orange that actually has signal, and some non-orange too.
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what people have to understand is that companies have to get permits from the city just to put up a tower and sometimes that can take a long time. until then…they build where they can
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Yeah that’s it
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Doesn’t make any sense that they’d expand into st catharines and not cover Brock University or the Thorold area. If they made the home zone just around 10km further down south they’d attract so many students as their plans are amazing
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Are they both in a planned expansion zone now? If so, then eventually they will be covered as well.
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I agree… it’s disappointing that they didn’t get Brock covered and Thorold considering how much of a student population is there. It’s coming obviously, lets just hope sooner rather than later.
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Meanwhile on the west coast wind is expanding into abbotsford and victoria nothing official but the towers are up and on.
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Abbotsford has planned coverage as well.
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they NEED to improve their coverage in Oshawa especially North Oshawa by UOIT and also expand EAST of the GTA!!!!!
Oshawa has very bad coverage!!!!!
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Not sure if the author is aware of this, but Welland and St Catharines are in the Niagara Region along with Niagara Falls. The only thing new today is that they updated to now include Niagara Falls as being live.
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I thought they have coverage wherever Rogers has coverage. Its called Away network. And for calls its cheaper then with Rogers themselves cause you don’t pay long distance with Wind.
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Heh, you are indeed correct
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Yeah it’s pretty nuts that Wind customers using Rogers’ network play less for long distance than Rogers’ own customers do.
But the CRTC needs to force Rogers to charge less for reselling data, the roaming data prices are absolutely ludicrous. If I get lost in some country-a*s town I want to be able to use my phone’s GPS without paying $50 to get home!
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@Chris> You don’t need data for GPS to work, you only need data to download maps you don’t have pre-cached.
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@Chris
In that case buy a phone that HAS GPS built in, and not the one that has A-GPS.
A-GPS is NOT a GPS, it is network assisted guidance assistant. It is FALSE labeling and just a marketing ploy to make people think they have GPS built into their phones.
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@lolz:
A-GPS is “extension” of the GPS to enable faster lock to the signal. If you use only GPS positioning, it could take few minutes to get initial lock and position, with A-GPS it just gets that info faster, using tower data and some minimal (few KB) data traffic. No phone advertises A-GPS without having actual GPS too.
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its sad to see that they have more reception on the water than they do in the western part of the city of Ottawa.
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Yeah, very annoying. The Mobilicity booth at Bayshore said they should be on line in Barrhaven early 2012. Didn’t have chance to ask at the Wind booth.
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Wind is already live in most of Barrhaven, the coveragemapper has recent coverage reoprted by users, Mobi don’t have any coverage there or in Orleans
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They still don’t show Cambridge as being live, but they opened a kiosk in the Cambridge Centre mall in the past week!
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Do you have to pay data roaming fees with Rogers or Wind, even if you’re within Canada? I’m with Telus and I can use data anywhere in the country without paying extra (as long as it’s within my 6GB limit)
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Obviously. Or do you find it shocking that Rogers doesn’t allow Wind customers to use their data for free?
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WIND still needs to build cell towers east of Morningside Road for those of us that live in the eastern end of Scarborough. Being told by a WIND technical rep that you’re in a red zone (almost non-existent) coverage area doesn’t really help. And we’re not too far away from U of T’s Scarborough campus.
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Good for Wind, bad for Mobilicity.
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Are you kidding me? I get London, but Barrie, really? Windsor census metropolitan area is like twice as big as Barrie.
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Pretty nice! Now, extend in Quebec… >.<
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Hi unfortunately you can say thank you to videotron, they bought out the whole province of quebec aws coverage for themselves so no one else can compete in the quebec market so wind will never be able to come to quebec because of that, sorry man
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great now we can hear the complaints on why people in those areas get no signal, or have terrible customer service, billing, call, signal jabrni issues!
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rocco, it doe not surprise me that they would be for sale again.
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I am still waiting for the promised area around Edmonton to be filled in as acording to the map I am right on the Wind Zone boundy in Sherwood Park, I would be a client already if this would have been done 2 years ago like promised.
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Great . I love WIND ..I couldn’t afford a cell phone till WIND came along ..the monthly charges with the BIG 3 were ridiculous ..especially all the hidden charges & surprise charges etc . With WIND what you see is what you get ..a much much lower bill & no BS contracts , ECF fees etc .
Go WIND go
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@Phoneguy
Are you 12 years old? Every post I read from you contains garbage statements and false information. Go enjoy your little closed system cell phone provider (Dead CDMA) and let Wind and the other serious contendors show how to run a business.
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my blackberry’s keyboard is bigger then the screen, GO WIND GO!
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When Mobilicity is going to build at least one new tower?
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Any body knows when will Stouffville covered? Already a tower operating there.
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Rocco, give it up already. I don’t work for Wind. I’ve mentioned my employer on numerous occasions, which you would know if you actually bothered to read other people’s posts before commenting.
BTW, pick a subject when you post. Your rants are unfocused and give me a headache trying to read them. Maybe stay on topic while you’re at it…
Anyway, back to the topic – expansion.
Nice to see them filling in the area. It sort of sucks when you travel just outside of your city and immediately start roaming. Now, if they’d only expand in Alberta….
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nucleartroll is trying for employee of the month and credibility zero.
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Guys anybody remember this one when a certain smaller provider had for a network before being bought out by uncle ted? their coverage back then was about the same as wind today, but they were building their network the european way, which by the way, is a lot better then you think, wind should 1st buy out mobilicity to get double the coverage inside the city core like the GTA and have enough subs to fill up those orange spots and make a real network like back in the fido days, and by the way, i miss the old fido
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woo hoo London is coming soon! too bad im in a contract for like another 1.5 years.
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