Alright, Ed, it is Ed? Our Verizon flip phones stopped working in Wabigoon, Ontario a few years back. The Tbaytel cell phone company uses 4gHSPS- (is it and?), 800Mhz, and 1900MHz. My Apple smart phone works well since I got it in NW Ontario. I should add, Bell Canada has a tower near, and it is the same story.
Can you decipher that gibberish, and give an explanation in language an old hick farmer can understand??