Burke Mountain Tower?????

[lindsy]

Where is the promised service for upper Westwood Plateau and N.E. Port Coquitlam which should have been covered by a tower on Burke Mountain? I am talking about only these certain parts of Coquitlam and N.E. Port Coquitlam B.C.

[ECBomb]

Hm...when I was looking at houses at Coast Meridian (that strip of new development) the signal for Mobilicity was great there (had 2 bars of signal even in the basement part of some of those new homes). Not sure if that area applies to you.

[ckl_88]

I'm just wondering why they just can't put towers up on the bc hydro lands there. There's Meridian sub station and power lines going north all the way to where Parkway meets Plateau Blvd. If I drive around Panorama, I can see various antenna's mounted ontop of the towers holding the power lines up... so it is possible to do this. Anyway, in that area, the only carrier with a good signal indoors and out is Rogers. Telus/Bell have just as bad a signal as Wind so I'm thinking this area is a Rogers exclusive.... like SFU.

[ECBomb]

Telus/Bell have just as bad a signal as Wind so I'm thinking this area is a Rogers exclusive.... like SFU.

Sorry to side track from the thread, but Bell and Telus actually work fine on SFU (since I've been there last Fall term). My friends text me on campus a lot (and they're using Bell or Telus), so Rogers does not have exclusive rights there anymore.

[savbers]

The carriers are just having problems setting up there - something about too expensive or bad contract.

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[lindsy]

If you call Wind, they say that a tower on Burke Mt. should be up and active soon but they said this about a year ago. They shouldn't make promises that they can't keep.

[403808]

If you call Wind, they say that a tower on Burke Mt. should be up and active soon but they said this about a year ago. They shouldn't make promises that they can't keep.

What do you expect them to say - we have a tower on Burke Mt but we have absolutely no plans or intentions of turning it on?

[canadiancow]

If you call Wind, they say that a tower on Burke Mt. should be up and active soon but they said this about a year ago. They shouldn't make promises that they can't keep.

By your logic, no one should make any promises. I'm fairly certain I won't die before I can submit this message, but until it is actually received by the server, I can't guarantee that this message will go through.

Likewise, numerous things can happen with cell site construction to slow things down. So if you want 100% certainty, then they can't say anything. Because anything can change.

Also, how do you define "soon"? I'll agree that I wouldn't consider a year to be soon, but for an industry as old as this (what is it now, ~25 years? I know my parents had car phones in the very early 90s), one year is hardly a long time.