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I’ve been using Bell since prior to moving here. Everywhere I ask suggest that have the best “coverage”. They even have 3 towers near my location. but neither my roommate or I can get a decent signal in our condo. I often miss calls or experience disconnects. This is also true when out doing errands such as buying groceries. I usually send pictures to my roommate to confirm what I need to buy. But often need find specific places in the stores that have signal. Does anyone else have this issue? also is there any provider which doesn’t have this issue? Solution There was a wifi calling option on my phone. I was confused by the websites which made it sound like somthing that cost extra. Turns out you just need to provide an adress for 911 use then it just sorta works.

I’ve been using Bell since prior to moving here. Everywhere I ask suggest that have the best “coverage”. They even have 3 towers near my location. but neither my roommate or I can get a decent signal in our condo. I often miss calls or experience disconnects.

This is also true when out doing errands such as buying groceries. I usually send pictures to my roommate to confirm what I need to buy. But often need find specific places in the stores that have signal.

Does anyone else have this issue? also is there any provider which doesn’t have this issue?

Solution

There was a wifi calling option on my phone. I was confused by the websites which made it sound like somthing that cost extra. Turns out you just need to provide an adress for 911 use then it just sorta works.

  • baconisaveg
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have the same situation in Edmonton. Concrete builing, and my ‘office’ is an internal room with no windows. The solution was to get a carrier that had a VoWIFI service. Telus has one but it’s custom and only works with certain phones IIRC, so I ended up going with Virgin. All I needed to do was register my account for it (free), and now I never miss a call/SMS when I’m not near an external window.

    There’s too many services that still rely on SMS (password OTP, food delivery, etc) to live without it.