Further to this saga, I got the watch(purchased from Bell) replaced under AppleCare+ and the replacement activated fine with Telus. So this is simply Telus playing dirty and blocking certain devices from being used on their network. Not that I expect...
Seems to depend where you bought it. It it was bought from Apple, it should be no issue with going to either carrier. I haven't been able to find out yet if Bell is picky about devices bought through Telus.
Well it looks like my suspicions have been confirmed. If you buy the Apple Watch from Bell, Telus will refuse to activate it on their network. Period. They will give some technical reason and use words like ineligible but it doesn't take a genius to ...
Well it looks like even though cellular devices are no longer allowed to be locked to a carrier in Canada, Telus is still playing a dirty game of not allowing devices purchased from other carriers on their network with the Apple Watch. I'm sure there...