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Rumour: Koodo launching HSPA network in April/May

By on February 7, 2010 at 9:22am in Koodo Mobile News, Mobile News, Various News

For all those wondering when Koodo might be making the switch over to HSPA we have some Koodolicious news for you! Nothing is confirmed yet but we’ve been tipped that Koodo is looking around the April/May time frame to go live with some HSPA goodness. This is a natural progression as all their main competition has started to offer devices beyond entry level. For example, Virgin just launched their HSPA network and started to offer upscale devices like the iPhone and BlackBerry Bold 9700. Fido also has the iPhone and will be selling the 8520 shortly.

So where does leave Koodo? We’ve also been informed that they’re looking at bringing on the iPhone/Smartphones to boost their phone lineup. Still early on the game as how everything would look on their “Tab” system… but apparently there would be an increase in the Tab on data phones/packages above a certain price point (similar to the carriers and how they subsidize pricing on a 3-year contract with a minimum $50 Voice and Data plan).      We’ll have more info soon!

Related posts:

  1. Bell Officially launching HSPA network on November 4th
  2. Official: TELUS HSPA network launching November 5th, 2009
  3. Koodo Mobile shows SIM card on Activation page… HSPA inevitable
  4. Virgin launching “huge new” HSPA+ network Feb. 2nd

Discussion

8 comments for “Rumour: Koodo launching HSPA network in April/May”

  1. Good news indeed. Would be nice if in addition to the usual suspects of iPhone and BlackBerry, Koodo offered at least one Android phone. This would differentiate them from Fido and Virgin, and make Android folks (like me) happy.

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    Posted by Jim R | February 7, 2010, 12:23 pm
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  2. Now Solo’s the only discount carrier left. :|

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    Posted by Ankit | February 7, 2010, 12:50 pm
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  3. About Time Koodo!

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    Posted by Thomas S | February 7, 2010, 1:41 pm
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  4. Funny…a something-ectomy is when they REMOVE something. Not start something new, or add something, or anything like that. Generally needing a *-ectomy is a bad thing.

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    Posted by Nate | February 7, 2010, 1:53 pm
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  5. Doesn’t the “ectomy” suffix mean the surgical removal of things in the medical world?

    So… the ad means to tell people to get ready to get rid of HSPA? Awesome.

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    Posted by James Lui | February 7, 2010, 2:02 pm
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  6. About time

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    Posted by B | February 7, 2010, 3:43 pm
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  7. That sucks… Everybody’s gonna have the iPhone now

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    Posted by Jeffrey Morris | February 8, 2010, 7:48 am
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  8. Uh SOLO is on its way out the door…

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    Posted by Leetneo | February 8, 2010, 10:19 am
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