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Rogers begins to build out HSPA+ wireless network

By on July 28, 2009 at 7:03am in Mobile News, Rogers Wireless News, Various News

rogers-network-phasesIt was not that long ago, actually at the Canadian Telecom Summit on June 15th that Nadir Mohamed, Rogers President and CEO of Rogers, said “To me we are now entering the sweet spot of HSPA deployment 7.2”.

However, today is a new story as Rogers has announced “it has begun the Canada-wide deployment of a 21 Megabits per second (Mbps) high-speed HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access Plus) wireless network, following the successful expansion and doubling of speed of its high-speed network to 7.2 Mbps last year.”

The official built-out will start in August, first in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) and expand “quickly” over several months to other Canadian cities. Huge news and those are blazing fast speeds! Rogers also stated they will be the first wireless provider in North America and only the sixth carrier in the world to launch a HSPA+ network.

Rob Bruce, President, Rogers Wireless said “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. 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 press release also stated “The 21 Mbps network capability will be complemented with the launch of a 21 Mbps capable Mobile Internet stick in the same timeframe”. We have also confirmed with Rogers that there are no current products on the market now that can handle 21 Mbps and the Internet stick will be the launched first. Plus the announcement refers just to Rogers customers, not Fido customers.

More here at Rogers

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Discussion

7 comments for “Rogers begins to build out HSPA+ wireless network”

  1. Awesome. Hopefully this expansion includes St. John's.

    HSPA in the core of the city, then 5 minutes away in Mount Pearl EDGE-only. :/

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    Posted by St. John's | July 28, 2009, 2:09 am
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  2. Rogers is really on the ball with this. So are there any products on the market right now that currently support HSPA+, or just that mobile internet stick they are going to release soon?

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    Posted by Ted Avery | July 28, 2009, 2:56 am
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  3. I think the new archos unit comming out is hspa plus.

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    Posted by Jayme | July 28, 2009, 3:34 am
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  4. HAHA! there scared of bell and telus….they need to do something!

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    Posted by Leetneo | July 28, 2009, 4:10 am
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  5. lol

    What a joke. This is nothing more than a kneejerk reaction to Globalive and the other newcomers which are expected to roll out networks at the 10 Mbs range.

    I can confidently say that it will be a 'paper launch' for Rogers for about 3 years. The major centers will have crappy 21Mbs service in about 1 year+. By the time you get good 21 Mbs connection (2013) they will have been talking about their move to LTE speeds for about 2 1/2 years.

    Anything to keep raping customers…gotta love to hate the big 3.

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    Posted by Clint | July 28, 2009, 6:07 am
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  6. Its only worthwhile having that speed if Rogers keeps up with decently priced data plans that have a decent amount of usage.

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    Posted by theninjasquad | July 28, 2009, 6:26 am
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  7. This is where your system access fee went to :D .

    About time?

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    Posted by Rich | July 28, 2009, 7:02 am
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