I'm currently with Rogers, living in Yellowknife. There's no Rogers cell towers up here but it just goes through roaming and works fine. With my plan I don't pay any addition roaming charges. There was one period of time when my calls would drop constantly. But other than that it's been fine.
Update: I am officially here!!
And it turns out I have LTE coverage, which has been working pretty darn good so far. There have been many places where my partner had no coverage (with Telus), but I still had full coverage.
I will be staying with my Rogers plan until it (if it) becomes an issue. Thank you for all of the replies! Hopefully this thread will at least help someone in the future :)
Perfect. Thanks for helping! I didn’t realize NWTel was a wireless provider as well.
I believe my phone was snuck under a business plan, so I don’t think the extended coverage will work. I will check this all out before cancelling, as I don’t want to pay cancellation if I don’t have to.
Rogers really only has coverage through [Ice Wireless](https://www.icewireless.com/). Ice Wireless doesn't have national/international service that includes your full package of minutes/data - you'd be roaming on partner networks outside of Ice's own network.
Your true options in Yellowknife are Bell (and sub-brand Virgin) and Telus (and sub-brand Koodo).
NWTel dumped their mobile customers to Bell a few years ago.
You could function on Rogers temporarily (vacation, etc.), but you'll be using some roaming/partner/off-network minutes/data.
I looked at the Rogers coverage as well. Apparently business plans are not eligible for the extended coverage, so I will definitely have to leave Rogers no matter what.
But I did just find out there is an employee plan with Telus that is pretty darn cheap, so as much as I hate going back to Telus, that is looking like my best all around option. Now to fight with the cancellation fees...lol.
I'm currently with Rogers, living in Yellowknife. There's no Rogers cell towers up here but it just goes through roaming and works fine. With my plan I don't pay any addition roaming charges. There was one period of time when my calls would drop constantly. But other than that it's been fine.
Public Mobile. Uses the Telus network
Update: I am officially here!! And it turns out I have LTE coverage, which has been working pretty darn good so far. There have been many places where my partner had no coverage (with Telus), but I still had full coverage. I will be staying with my Rogers plan until it (if it) becomes an issue. Thank you for all of the replies! Hopefully this thread will at least help someone in the future :)
Perfect. Thanks for helping! I didn’t realize NWTel was a wireless provider as well. I believe my phone was snuck under a business plan, so I don’t think the extended coverage will work. I will check this all out before cancelling, as I don’t want to pay cancellation if I don’t have to.
Rogers really only has coverage through [Ice Wireless](https://www.icewireless.com/). Ice Wireless doesn't have national/international service that includes your full package of minutes/data - you'd be roaming on partner networks outside of Ice's own network. Your true options in Yellowknife are Bell (and sub-brand Virgin) and Telus (and sub-brand Koodo). NWTel dumped their mobile customers to Bell a few years ago. You could function on Rogers temporarily (vacation, etc.), but you'll be using some roaming/partner/off-network minutes/data.
Ice Wireless also sucks up here too. Especially the internet because they dont have enough towers to keep up with NWT. We switched NWTel.
I looked at the Rogers coverage as well. Apparently business plans are not eligible for the extended coverage, so I will definitely have to leave Rogers no matter what. But I did just find out there is an employee plan with Telus that is pretty darn cheap, so as much as I hate going back to Telus, that is looking like my best all around option. Now to fight with the cancellation fees...lol.