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I am currently an MTS customer living approximately 10 miles north of Brandon. My cell signal is weak at best anywhere between Brandon and Minnedosa. It has been suggested to me that I should consider switching providers. Someone mentioned there is a new tower run by Telus just off of the number 10 hwy that was assembled recently. Does anyone have experience or suggestions as to which carriers can provide a steady and strong signal in my area? Information regarding signal strength and plans available for any of the providers is appreciated.

Telus is the only one with a strong signal anywhere between Kirkaldy Drive and Minnedosa.  
If you go further north of that, you might have trouble. Telus has been putting up a lot of towers away from highway 1 this past year especially south, looks like they aren''t on the air yet. I don''t know about north of #1 as much, I don''t go there as much...  
That's a telus tower beside highway 10 north of the rivers turnoff. Also Telus has a new tower on the North Hill by Valu Village. MTS and Rogers rural coverage will soon be made obsolete by these new towers...  
 
Edited by sparkycivic, 2016-12-16 22:42:41

i have had good luck with rogers, Melita is a weak area, and of course riding mountain park, but in my travels from Brandon to Roblin, wpg, Alberta, my rugby 3 never let me down, I do find my Samsung s6 does not have the same signal strength but hasn't failed me yet.

I put in a call to Rogers in early November or late October about the poor cell signal quality in Brandon and around south western Manitoba. I've had several responses from Rogers:  
 
"We're sorry to say there's been a delay in fixing this problem. Thank you for your patience as our technical teams work on this."  
 
Yeah, I highly doubt that they are working on this very hard.