Rogers and at&t share the same towers, or at least rogers in Canada bought them 
from the US.

No wonder signal, overall network speed suck here, though I'm not getting any 
dropped calls.

I must say though, I can't wait to move to the us and go on vz. From what my 
partner tells me (he has the droid x), vz has quite a good network.

On 2011-03-01, at 8:29 PM, James Mannion wrote:

> I really think it is because mobile networks are not able yet to
> handel people putting unlimited demands for data access on them. Any
> network has its upper limits and mobile networks are still less able
> to handel demand than land line networks. If they put limits that
> serve a purpose, but are not over limiting, that keeps people from
> constantly doing things like streaming the most data intensive video
> stuff and whatever else they can fid with no concern of any
> consequences to themselves, bringing down the entire network so nobody
> can do anything and then everybody is left unhappy. People will be a
> little more reasonable with what they do if there is a cost to them.
> Having said that, AT&T's netwrk can not even handel the limited use in
> some areas including the city where I live. During the day I can not
> even pull up a small web page on AT&T's 3g network. It simply times
> out. I can not stream pandora, I can barely use the weather app to
> pull its small amount of data. Since my contract is almost up, I have
> signed on with Verizon and I can tell you that right now their network
> actually works in my area. My understanding is that this exact
> situation is not uncommon at all. Maybe Verizon will manage their
> resources and growth in a way that does not create another AT&T.
> 
> On 3/1/11, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> what's the theory behind VZ droping its unlimited data plan? read more:
>> 
>> http://bit.ly/e7omui
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