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Rogers HSPA+ Rocket Stick available today
A few weeks ago Rogers announced that their new HSPA+ network was set live in the following cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Their first product was available for pre-order, the ZTE MF 668 which is otherwise known as their new Rocket Stick. This is supposed to have speeds up to 21 Mbps.
If you are not in the one of those cities you can still purchase the Stick but will have the speeds that is available to you in that area (probably 7.2 Mbps) and will get the 21 Mbps when it’s officially rolled out at a later date.
For those who did pre-order, this will most likely land at your house today or tomorrow as they’ve started shipping them. Also, some Rogers locations will be receiving them today for sale. The new Rocket Stick is available on a 2-year contract for $74.99 (with a minimum data plan of $25 per month). If the no-contract is your game you can get this for $199.99 outright.
The specs are:
- Weight: 30 grams, Size: 7.7 x 2.8 x 1.2 cm
- Memory Storage Capability: Via microSD card is up to 8GB (not included)
- Frequency: HSPA+/UMTS 850/1900/2100Mhz, GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900Mhz
- Mobile Internet: Speeds up to 21.6 Mbps download and 5.76Mbps uplink
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if you don’t live in or near one of those cities then you probably wouldn’t even get 7.2 Mbps
More like 47 – 125 Kbps gprs/edge speeds lmao
its been over a year rogers has been talking of releacing 3G in my city – were is it? idk – bell & tellus’s GSM HSPA 3G is allready up here (and nationwide) tho…… With rogers being tha number one telcom, they need to invest More in there 3G network.. before releacing UnUsable networks to cellphones
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21 Mbps Speed sounds really good that meens I can incure tha $500.00 data charge limit in 2.3 hours
WOW THANKS ROGERS
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21Mbps would be 4+ times faster than my ADSL …
But we live in Canada, and as the above commenter noted, you’ll run through your 25$ data plan in 3 minutes 10 seconds…
how fun/useful !
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Rogers site says new hspa+ stick out-of-stock. Nice launch! In-store employees and phone support haven’t even heard of the stick. Typical Rogers marketing mess-up. Wish I still lived in Australia.
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Yea who got one? No one or not many probably lol they say its launched – then slap out-of-stock to build hype …… probley moved 100 units – seeing stores didn’t even get stock…
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I live just outside of Calgary, and, while the rocket stick is a bit of blessing because, for years, I was stuck with dialup and no other options, the stick hasn’t quite lived up to it’s potential in this area. Had to run a long USB to a window to get a decent number of bars, but the stick has rthis nasty habit of showing me a strong 3G signal, but then switching down to a bar or two of EDGE when I hit the connect button. What’s with that? Is Rogers, as Bell did, purposely choking off connectivity at certain times of day? I do get the occassional HSUPA signal. How is that different than HSPA?
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