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SaskTel’s 3G network “will be up and running for July 1st”… confirms will have new iPhone

By on April 15, 2010 at 6:18am in Mobile News, SaskTel News, Various News

Back in October SaskTel signed a network sharing agreement with TELUS and Bell for “the rapid deployment of next generation wireless and data services through UMTS and HSPA”. The start date was scheduled for mid-2010 with a targeted completion date of 2011.

Great news today for customer and residents of Saskatchewan… President and CEO Robert Watson announced that “We’re building the 3G network right now. It will be up and running for July 1st (with) completion by the end of this year.” In addition, to kick things off when it comes to devices, Watson also stated that “The good news is that (Apple) is coming out with a new version of the iPhone in the June time-frame and they’re going to put us on that. So we’re quite excited about that.”

SaskTel will have over 500 cell phone towers and the total cost of new network build-out is estimated to reach the $172 million mark. “It will probably be the best geographic network in the world, with the size and the population that we’ll cover. (With Saskatchewan having) the geographical size of Texas and we only have a million people, we’ll have a 3G network that will cover 98 per cent of the population.”

Via: Leader Post

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  3. SaskTel, TELUS & Bell ink Network Sharing Agreement that brings HSPA devices to Saskatchewan by 2011
  4. SaskTel increases prices for their Prepaid service

Discussion

12 comments for “SaskTel’s 3G network “will be up and running for July 1st”… confirms will have new iPhone”

  1. I’m lovin it.Anouther confermation for a new iPhone.Rock on

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    Posted by Larry | April 15, 2010, 8:35 am
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  2. iPhone 4G will be interesting.. it may push me to go from my BB.

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    Posted by Roger | April 15, 2010, 1:07 pm
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  3. I wonder if the CDMA devices will be deeply discounted soon? They are pretty much obsolete now.

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    Posted by Kelly | April 15, 2010, 9:35 pm
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  4. I highly doubt it will support 4G it will most likely be called the iPhone HD…

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    Posted by Michael Holinsky | April 16, 2010, 2:52 am
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  5. Why do people keep calling it the iPhone 4g? the new iphone rumored is supposed to be called the iphone HD, the only company in NA that has a 4g network is sprint and its doubtful that apple would make a WiMAX device.

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    Posted by Steven Johansen | April 16, 2010, 3:31 am
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  6. I see SaskTel is on the fast track to losing their iPhone contract. “First rule of new iPhone availability: Don’t talk about new iPhone availability.” ;)

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    Posted by JoeD | April 16, 2010, 9:53 am
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  7. Finally another HSPA carrier besides Rogers/Fido. Telus shouldn’t be far behind. Maybe I can finally ditch Rogers. Or at least get a better plan/phone by threatening to switch carriers.

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    Posted by Nico | April 19, 2010, 1:10 am
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  8. Nice to hear.
    Now only if we could get some newly release phones and a fair data rate plan.

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    Posted by Jim | April 19, 2010, 8:23 am
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  9. Great news! I’m a SaskTel customer and have been waiting for this for a long time.

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    Posted by Samia | May 10, 2010, 1:55 pm
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  10. Does this new network mean we can all text internationally?

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    Posted by Jish | July 30, 2010, 2:23 pm
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  11. Well it’s near the end of October and still no iphone from sasktel, is anyone as surprised as me!!!

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    Posted by Chad | October 25, 2010, 11:26 pm
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  12. i have a 3g cell phone but it doesn’t work here at the reserve and wondering when they will start working like my other cell phone works here but the 3g cellphone doesn’t even work

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    Posted by Lenore | September 17, 2011, 1:05 pm
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