Rogers becomes Speed Junkie with HSPA+
Rogers wireless division has announced the launch of their HSPA+ network, which will supply speeds of up to a whopping 21 Mbps. The roll out begins in Greater Toronto in August, and will continue to other cities over the upcoming months. This is hot on the heels of their recent announcement of a 50 Mbps home internet connection using DOCSIS 3.0 technology.
“With the exponential growth of smartphones, application stores, mobile Internet sticks and embedded laptops and netbooks, Canadians are embracing wireless data and services like never before,” said Rob Bruce, President, Rogers Wireless. “The super-charged data speeds achieved with Rogers’ 21 Mbps upgrade will enable us to support more customers with the most innovative mobile services well into the future, while our customers will experience mobile broadband at speeds like what they experience at home and at work.”
The HSPA+ is fairly new. In fact, Rogers will be the first North American carrier to support it, and only the 6th in the world, if the press release is to be believed. As of this writing, there’s no word of pricing or data caps, though I wouldn’t hold my breath for a great deal in either department, if they find $150/m reasonable for a 50Mbps land line.
““With the exponential growth of smartphones, application stores, mobile Internet sticks and embedded laptops and netbooks, Canadians are embracing wireless data and services like never before,””
That’s not exactly a bold statement from the company that rigidly controls all of the above, or in cases where exclusivity is fleeting, is pricing things so astronomically out of reach that no one in their right minds would buy them.
Rogers is just SO bad at spin 😛
I find it amusing that there’s a Bell ad to the right of this article.
No fan of big Blue, but I’ll take them over Rogers any day. Was thinking of upgrading my phone (it IS a year and a half old now… way too long…), but I’m gonna hold out until Bell & Telus introduce their GSM offerings. They also won’t have to worry about supporting legacy hardware, and should get a high speed network rolled out pretty fast.
All the comparisons I’ve seen between Bell and Rogers suggests that Rogers only cares about what happens in Ontario, and doesn’t give a crap about anywhere else in the country. At least with Bell (and Telus) the network travels better.
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