Have they announced a launch date in Vancouver yet?

says June 4th on howard forums, 4 days before my next fido billing cycle, fuk yea!!

just to clarify, wind doesnt support any of the GSM quad bands right? only 3g 900/AWS/2100 ? Would i be able to use the wind blackberry with an china sim card?

June 4th? Wow, that's soon, good to know

sorry, update, official is June 18th. FUK have to go through another billing cycle with fido ><!

http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1646658

but more phones and plans it looks like.

Nice, more phones and plans :)

depends what frequencies they use in china, or are you talking about using a china sim to roam in here?

If you meant by using the phone in china, then im not sure. i DO know that the wind blackberry supports quad-band frequencies for 2g, but off course you would not be able to use 3g.

if you meant using your china sim to ROAM here...you would have to see your china carrier's website if they have any partnership with windmobile

if you guys are gonna cancel, better do it now than later, it says in your contract or when you sign up for your phone service that they require a month notice before cancellation.

i meant if i can bring the wind blackberry to china, plug in a chinese sim card and use 3G. It llooks like china is on 2100 band for 3g according to this:

http://www.worldtimezone.com/gsm.html


so technically it would work right?

and the other thing i meant was wind doesnt support quad band in terms that i wont be able to use my unlocked fido phone on it. If i dont want date, the voice wouldnt even work because wind runs voice on AWS?

also according to wind, when you port your number over, wind cancels for you. So your not supposed to cancel yourself if you want to transfer your number.

Basically, if you get a fido blackberry, it won't work with wind. If you buy a wind berry, it is backwards compatible on 2g. If china uses 2100, then it should work(wind blackberry). Your right about the porting, my bad
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Yup, pretty much everywhere in the world (that you'd want to go to) uses 2100, except NA and Australia

What was the reason for NA to use 850/1900? I remember reading about it a few years back.

interesting..dualband 2100/850

The FCC already used those frequencies for other applications, and so had no choice but to set it differently. Of course we had to match 'em.

I swear, USA walks to a different beat from the rest of the world. What's up with all that miles/pounds and different vehicle standards crap anyways? :rolleyes:

Oh, Japan says hello
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^ There's a major difference. That the 2 things I listed above for them don't apply last time I checked. They use metric everywhere, and accept ECE (ie Euro-spec) vehicles without having to wait 15 years, last time I checked. ;)

just wat i was about to say. Americans always think of new fuked up standards that they want the rest of the world to adopt, but no one does because it's all crap.

I wasn't referring to cars, I was referring to overall culture. Nobody is as backwards and xenophobic as Japan, trust me

the plans so far are okay on wind mobile site
nothing spectacular

it is if you travel a lot.

Just an update:

Wind Mobile's Vancouver launch will be on Thursday, June 3, 2010.

See here: http://www.windmobile.ca/community/W...day-vancouver/

http://shop.windmobile.ca/ProductCatalog/VoicePlans/

is this the plan website for vancouver? it doesnt impressive me that much

I think for 80 bucks unlimited everything (including data) and Canada-wide calling is nothing short of amazing...

It's comparable to most US carrier's unlimited plans. If you can stick within the Wind Zone, I think it's a perfect landline replacement solution.

I'm thinking of leaving Bell for Wind.

$17.50/mo for basically unlimited local calls in the Wind Zone sounds pretty damn good to me? That beats out City Fido. Even after 6 months, $35/mo isn't bad at all. I don't know about you but that beats out even my current Corporate plan.

Sure you have to stay inside your home zone but that's true with the Big 3 anyways last time I checked. If your number is Vancouver-based, you're paying Long D in Abbotsford etc.

funny thing is they have better roaming rates (25c) on rogers network than a rogers phone roaming on their own network LOL. you know robbers is ripping you off when. haha

switching to wind first thing thursday after work. $80 unlimited everything including data is what i have been waiting for since their launch