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20 comments for “Official: Bell & TELUS releasing the iPhone this November”

1. so when is Telus launching their iPhone?!

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   Posted by Sean S | October 6, 2009, 7:14 am

2. Why is Telus last to launch anything these days?

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   Posted by SToronto | October 6, 2009, 7:46 am

3. sigh hoping for a 2 year contract

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   Posted by Nadim | October 6, 2009, 8:08 am

4. Can’t wait to see what the pricing is going to be like. I really hope they shake things up with it and just don’t price it the same as Rogers.

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   Posted by theninjasquad | October 6, 2009, 8:22 am

5. Telus announcement was out well within the time difference between Ontario and BC.

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   Posted by doitonabike | October 6, 2009, 9:01 am

6. I still say this is bogus. The HSPA network will be so small customers will have very limited usefulness. There is something screwy about this whole thing, and I’ll believe it when I see it in the stores.

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   Posted by Kelly Spongberg | October 6, 2009, 9:25 am

7. doitonabike,

   Good point. I forgot to consider Telus HQ is in BC, however mobility is in ON is it not?

   Does that really work on a bike?

   I hope Telus allows tethering…I can see them wanting to scoop extra coin for that feature.

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   Posted by SToronto | October 6, 2009, 9:52 am

8. That registration page is an excellent way to gage demand.

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   SToronto Reply:
   October 6th, 2009 at 9:55 am

   Typo…..I meant gauge

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   Posted by SToronto | October 6, 2009, 9:55 am

9. Million dollar question: What would an iPhone on Bell or Telus do if it couldn’t get 3G signal? No EDGE to fall back on on CDMA, so…?? If anyone can shed some light here would be great!

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   SToronto Reply:
   October 6th, 2009 at 10:17 am

   Telus/Bell are rolling out a HSPA network.

   Here is a link for some light reading…. http://hspa.gsmworld.com/default.asp

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   TNSF Reply:
   October 6th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

   The Telus/Bell HSPA network is Canada-wide and much much larger than Rogers. No Edge/GSM fallback is needed in Canada.

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   guanuck Reply:
   October 7th, 2009 at 11:21 am

   thanks for the clarification!

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   Posted by guanuck | October 6, 2009, 10:06 am

10. Finally Rogers won’t have a choke hold on Canadians who want an iPhone. This is just one more thing to stir the pot in the Canadian wireless industry.

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    Posted by Scott | October 6, 2009, 10:49 am

11. iphone is so passe now if this happened when it first came to rogers i might’ve got it. Android is what intrigues me now, come on HTC hero and bell

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    Jonathan Reply:
    October 6th, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    Sure the hero would be nice but take a look into the HTC Touch HD2, I’m sure you will be pleased.

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    Posted by justin | October 6, 2009, 11:50 am

12. i hope the plans will be a little more reasonable then rogers/fido come on 60 bucks for 500mb of data?! also its safe to say the palm pre is dead with bell, with the iphone on bell now why would you want a pre?

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    Posted by mario93 | October 6, 2009, 2:05 pm

13. Hero, iphone, touch pro2 all on telus; hero, iphone and pre all on bell…. a bit more and they would all have the flagship phones of each OS

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    Posted by julienrl | October 6, 2009, 4:11 pm

14. Bell or Telus better get the hero before January. If that happens i’ll be happy

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    Posted by Torontobiker | October 6, 2009, 10:34 pm

15. i would 100% buy the iPhone… if Bell would put it on Virgin Mobile and make Virgin a HSPA and CDMA company but sadly, that will most likely never happen

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    Posted by colin | October 14, 2009, 4:30 pm