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My wife and I have been struggling to find any decent Telus coverage in SW Manitoba. Virden and Brandon okay - but everywhere else is one bar on our cell phones, or no reception at all. No cell service north of Brandon, or south of Brandon Hills. Phones were useful as of a couple months back, and prior, but service has gone to $#@! all as of late. Anyone else finding this the case as well?

I've been on Telus about 18 months, I haven't been in SW too much, but Ive had fine service out in Reston when I've been there. It's spotty north to Minnedosa but that was the case when I was with MTS as well. There haven't been any deadspots for me with them that weren't also deadspots with MTS.

Agreed telus signal has been terrible lots of dropped calls or very little signal. Has really gotten bad in the last few weeks

I travel in the sw all the time and no problem with my telos service. No drop calls or anything

I travel in a 200 km radius of brandon daily and haven't had any issues with my telus phone signal strength, maybe your phone antennae is degraded or damaged somehow ?  
 
Edited by hutchster, 2022-08-05 00:07:05

I usually don't have any problems with Telus. The only real time I had trouble was south of town which my signal dropped to 4g, 15 km south of Brandon. It dropped half my bike ride and was slow once I once I got back to Brandon. That was the day after Rogers went down, maybe related.  
 
Going north, like BellMTS, you are going to hit dead spots between Swan River and The Pas.

I'm with telus and work in the southern half of manitoba from sask border to gretna nd have great coverage until I get a few miles east of winkler then it completely drops off. Brandon hills isn't great but it never has been with bell mts mts prior to buyout telus or sasktel. Just some spotty places just never get service.  
 
If this is where you live id maybe consider a booster but in general there is pretty good telus coverage south of number #1 hwy.

I was complaining the other day that a lot of the time, my phone (Rogers) only gets 1 bar inside my house and out in the yard. It used to be 3-4 bars. I'm in Brandon too.  
 
Interesting though. I was up at my in-laws near Lac du Bonnet this past weekend and noticed that I had full bars. Last year when we were there (our first time), I had zero bars. I remarked that they must have put up a new tower.  
 
Nope, they said. You were here on a long weekend last time. There's always no bars for anyone on long weekends.  
 
So maybe a capacity issue? I can't think of what else it could be. Maybe something similar here, if you used to have service but now you kinda don't (same with me at home)?

I've got Telus and live in southern MB. If i don't have wifi I'm lucky to get 2 bars of LTE or maybe a bar of 3G. No 5G out here yet.