Alright there is no doubt I'm active as digital now. APG was absolutely right. Sorry APG, I wasn't doubting you, it's just that, as a scientist, hypotheses brought to me must be tested in experiments to prove beyond any doubt they are correct.
Ok, so I was traveling this w-e and the signal was flaky on the road. As I understand it, outside the cities, cellular towers don't belong to Bell. But Bell and Telus have agreements. So in order to have a fully functionnal phone, the Preferred-Roaming-List (PRL) must be correctly set for the phone to attach to the next appropriate tower when a Bell tower can't be reached. In the settings I exposed in a past post, I mentionned only entering the first Home SID and NID, this works fine for city centers I believe, now we need to figure out the next few ones on the list to correctly complete the service.
I would say this is particularly important for those southern Ontarians who live close to the US borders where other tower signals are reacheable and the US Sprint phone will likely prefer as soon as a Bell signal is week.
NOTE: Again I want to say that I am not an expert on the subject, I'm just figuring this stuff out as best I can as a go along.
So my current Treo 300 on Bell Mobility status:
- Analog billing plan.
- Working service in digital mode (of course, no analog in the treos)
- Caller ID working
- Voicemail works
- The "new message" signal doesn't show up on the Treo. (Voicemail is apparently attached to an *analog* phone, so it's just disabled)
- PRL is not configured correctly. Must complete the list to be able to travel within Canada correctly.
Anyone? any help? ... Bell PRL?