Heh. movistar in San Diego! - Page 2

PhotoJim · **Heh. movistar in San Diego! -** 16-02-2010, 16:38

I'm in the Point Loma district of San Diego, California on holiday this week and I was amused when one of my phones grabbed onto movistar. I thought perhaps it was an urban network but it's actually service from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico that I'm getting.

Tijuana is only about 15 km away but still, I would expect the service to be unreceivable here. I certainly can't receive US coverage at any distance from the US-Canadian border, except in rural areas. San Diego-Tijuana has 6 million people, not exactly rural.

Anyway, trivial, but entertaining. I can add one more country to the list of ones I've been registered to on a cell phone (.ca, .us, .uk, .ch, .de, .at, .li and now .mx).

Jim

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PhotoJim (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 389 Join Date: 10 Dec 2006 Location: Regina, SK, CA Country:	Heh. movistar in San Diego! - 16-02-2010, 16:38 I'm in the Point Loma district of San Diego, California on holiday this week and I was amused when one of my phones grabbed onto movistar. I thought perhaps it was an urban network but it's actually service from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico that I'm getting. Tijuana is only about 15 km away but still, I would expect the service to be unreceivable here. I certainly can't receive US coverage at any distance from the US-Canadian border, except in rural areas. San Diego-Tijuana has 6 million people, not exactly rural. Anyway, trivial, but entertaining. I can add one more country to the list of ones I've been registered to on a cell phone (.ca, .us, .uk, .ch, .de, .at, .li and now .mx). Jim CA: SaskTel, Wind postpaid; Rogers, Bell postpaid iPad flex plans; US: T-Mobile postpaid data, prepaid voice; PureTalk (AT&T MVNO) prepaid voice/data; AT&T prepaid iPad plan Hardware: Too much but notably iPhone 5, iPad Mini Retina LTE, Moto G LTE (N.A. version), iPhone 4. All unlocked.