Rogers GSM - crap service even downtown Toronto

I was trying to carry on a phone conversation with a friend in Toronto tonight. Both of his phones, two different accounts with Rogers, kept dropping the calls. No single call would stay up for more than 2 1/2 minutes!

It's bad enough that Rogers is a GSM monopoly with every monthly bill being an exercise in price-gouging (assuming its accurate) - but to have to redial 20 times in an hour when the guy's got 4 bars of service showing on his phone? Bleah.

We'd have switched to Skype but their cable-modem throughput at this time of night plus traffic shaping makes VOIP unintelligible. Can't win. Rogers sucks.