Fido store and Galaxy Nexus

[ijcy]

I had a rep tell me it was locked at the Rogers store today in Eaton centre so I asked to see a working phone and I put my Wind SIM into it and it worked fine. He the proceeded to tell me that phones locked to Rogers will work on Fido, Chatr and Wind because Rogers owns them. That is when I started to laugh, he told me to get the hell out of his store and never come back. Apparently I am rude and disrespectful to him. I told him I was not stupid and know more about cell phones then most people do. He was also trying to tell me that to buy the phone at full price it was $929 which I knew was bogus, when I told him what the price was on the rogers site he told me that was on contract
I swear some people will tell you anything just to convince people to sign contracts

Cause Rogers owns Wind, lol! that's a good one!

[jattdesi]

I had a rep tell me it was locked at the Rogers store today in Eaton centre so I asked to see a working phone and I put my Wind SIM into it and it worked fine. He the proceeded to tell me that phones locked to Rogers will work on Fido, Chatr and Wind because Rogers owns them. That is when I started to laugh, he told me to get the hell out of his store and never come back. Apparently I am rude and disrespectful to him. I told him I was not stupid and know more about cell phones then most people do. He was also trying to tell me that to buy the phone at full price it was $929 which I knew was bogus, when I told him what the price was on the rogers site he told me that was on contract
I swear some people will tell you anything just to convince people to sign contracts

This is just too Funny because you made him feel like an idiot so he had to make an excuse to get you out of the store.

I wonder what would he have said if you put in a Mobilicity Sim followed by a Telus, BELL, Solo, Virgin and so on. In matter of seconds all of them would be owned by Rogers.

[darkpk]

I just looked at the galaxy nexus on the fido site today http://www.fido.ca/web/Fido.portal?_...kuid=NEXUSGBLK.
I noticed the frequencies listed on their site are GSM 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz and HSPA 850/1900/2100 Mhz but Wind uses the 1700 Mhz.
Are there different models to the phone and can anyone who bought one from Fido confirm it works with Wind?

[Jonavin]

I just looked at the galaxy nexus on the fido site today http://www.fido.ca/web/Fido.portal?_...kuid=NEXUSGBLK.
I noticed the frequencies listed on their site are GSM 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz and HSPA 850/1900/2100 Mhz but Wind uses the 1700 Mhz.
Are there different models to the phone and can anyone who bought one from Fido confirm it works with Wind?

Can't rely on carriers to list bands they don't use. WIND doesn't list all the bands their Nokia can use either. At this point there's only one version of the Galaxy Nexus being sold in Canada. It works on all GSM/HSPA carriers in Canada.

[darkpk]

Can't rely on carriers to list bands they don't use. WIND doesn't list all the bands their Nokia can use either. At this point there's only one version of the Galaxy Nexus being sold in Canada. It works on all GSM/HSPA carriers in Canada.

Oh I see, I didn't know that. When I checked out the Bell's site they listed the 1700 Mhz band on theirs but Fido didn't so that got me confused. Thanks for the reply

[jaychiz]

i have a galaxy nexus from fido and it won't work on mobilicity, there's definitely something going on with the phones they're selling

[OCZ]

i have a galaxy nexus from fido and it won't work on mobilicity, there's definitely something going on with the phones they're selling

WTF? are you sure you even have mobilicity coverage where you are ....

I have a Gnex from Bell and it worked right away with WIND

[icemasta]

WTF? are you sure you even have mobilicity coverage where you are ....

I have a Gnex from Bell and it worked right away with WIND

+1. As soon as my Bell GN booted up, I had Wind Home.

[dtong22]

Cause Rogers owns Wind, lol! that's a good one!

I would not be laughing. That may happen in the future if Rogers tries to corner the market. I recall Fido was a lot user friendly and inexpensive to use. They may figure it out that it is cheaper to buy out the competition than wooing clients with decent rate.

Daniel, Toronto

[ijcy]

I would not be laughing. That may happen in the future if Rogers tries to corner the market. I recall Fido was a lot user friendly and inexpensive to use. They may figure it out that it is cheaper to buy out the competition than wooing clients with decent rate.

Daniel, Toronto

It could happen, but they do not now.

[Fortissimo]

I had a rep tell me it was locked at the Rogers store today in Eaton centre so I asked to see a working phone and I put my Wind SIM into it and it worked fine. He the proceeded to tell me that phones locked to Rogers will work on Fido, Chatr and Wind because Rogers owns them. That is when I started to laugh, he told me to get the hell out of his store and never come back. Apparently I am rude and disrespectful to him. I told him I was not stupid and know more about cell phones then most people do. He was also trying to tell me that to buy the phone at full price it was $929 which I knew was bogus, when I told him what the price was on the rogers site he told me that was on contract
I swear some people will tell you anything just to convince people to sign contracts

For stuff like this, it'd be nice to have it recorded (video and audio, even just audio is priceless), and then put it up on YouTube etc for all to see. For being forever banned at their store, at least you got something to show the world. It's cases like this that it reminds me of the old BestBuy commercial: the customer brought a lawyer and an accountant to shopping (with the theme that you don't need that with BestBuy, how wrong).