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Bell lights up Yellowknife with LTE
Even though there’s a class action lawsuit in Yellowknife against Bell, something that’s been ongoing since 2007, they have lit up the area with LTE speeds. The coverage is minimal for now, but will certainly grow over the next couple years. Residents in the area can expect to hit “peak speeds up to 75 Mbps, but Bell says you’ll actually average speeds of 12-25 Mbps.
The available LTE devices are the LG Optimus LTE, HTC Raider 4G LTE, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE, 4G LTE Novatel Wireless U679 Turbo Stick and the 4G LTE Sierra Wireless U313 Turbo Stick.
Yellowknife now joins Halifax, Dartmouth, Belleville, Toronto, Mississauga, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph.
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Yellowknife….. Really??
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^ Agreed. Vancouver? Calgary? Edmonton? MONTREAL? etc etc. Why don’t you just give coverage to Goose Bay Labrador? or Thunder Bay?
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Thunder Bay please!
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Funny. I have an LG Optimus LTE in Mtl and at Bell, the LTE switch is still off… they sell and advertise theses LTE devices in Mtl but don’t deliver…
False advertising …?
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Labrador City, Labrador deserves it more than Goose Bay, come on now
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So Bell gets LTE to Yellowknife… YELLOWKNIFE and the “Big Three” are worried about the deployment of LTE if they can’t bid in the 700Mhz spectrum? LOL
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Well see how tiny this LTE zone is… might have been larger on 700 MHz
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Well i guess they can cover the entire city without it being a major expense… now where are the LTE towers in the Lower Mainland now that will take a while… Hopefully Bell and Telus share towers again it just works out better for all of them
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F**k yeah Yelloknife woot!
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Bell is indeed making very stupid decisions… Right back to Possessing said, what about other cities such as Vancouver and Montreal… Smh at Bell..
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hahahahahaha MS its not april fools
but seriously kudos to bell for deploying somewhere the bandwidth might actually be needed
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i wonder if Bell has a big paying client who requested it? or if Yellowknife is just a test to see how well the 1700 penetrates in the north?
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1700 penetrates de north just as it penetrates the south
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there’s a different mix of building materials and construction elements up in the north, not to mention that attenuation can differ due to air density/quality
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I agree, too often, rural Canada gets the shaft in favour of the big cities. Kudos to Bell though I suspect they may have less than altruistic reasons for doing this.
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I think what people fail to realize about Yellowknife is bell controls 99% of the cell phones here, and the cell phone density in this city is mad. There might only be 20,000 people here in this small area, but I remember reading a thing in the paper about how there might actually be close to over 1 cell phone per person here, between personal and work phones.
Also might be trying to show some love to the customers before Rogers has a pathway into here coming into 2012.
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All 5 Yellowknife people rejoice. Whats next on their LTE deployment plan Taber, Alberta?
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dunno…but maybe we’ll hear Wind launching LTE up there….its the only area they have enough spectrum to do so
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I think Bell deploys in many tiny cities in order to be able to claim the “most LTE cities in Canada” crown.
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Excellent new for people of Yellowknife.
Now they just need to get a single damn tower in Manitoba with a population of over 750, 000 people in Winnipeg alone and over a million in the province. I can’t even buy a Samsung Nexus or Samsung Galaxy S II because they are exclusives with them.
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This is why our monthly cell bills are so high. Urbanites are subsidizing LTE service for 20,000 hicks in the middle of nowhere. CRTC must have made Bell do it.
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Nice comment coming from a guy with the name Ben Dover.
I guess it doesn’t matter I cant hear you anyway over the sound of my jacked up hick truck and speed of my new LTE phone.
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Hows the LTE reception inside the igloo?
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cmon brampton show me some love.
Actually wish there was some chart that showed some type of plans for lte launching even if it was in quarterly estimates.
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the only way the incumbents will ever win the hearts of you guys here on these blogs is if they give away something even more advanced than LTE for free to you, personally, and no one else.
they can’t catch a break, even when they serve rural areas like Yellowknife.
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Seriously Bell? *Facepalm*
That is all.
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Wow, how about investing some money in the service where there are more than 500 people living??? Bell, this is a good example why you suck. It’s only a matter of time before you become another Nortel.
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The need for mobile network is actually more prevalent in the northern areas such as Yellowknife, because the ground network is so sub-par at those areas.
Furthermore, the “hicks” in Yellowknife probably earns more than you too, if you just take a look at NWT’s GDP. It is a center for the healthy mining and oil industry in the north, which means there’s a lot more professionals than you actually think. Without a decent home broadband in that area, a lot of these people will want LTE.
Yellowknife is also surprisingly urban. Have you ever looked at pictures of that city?
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I don’t understand why calgary is being ignored by both rogers and bell. I know many people who would switch from telus if they could get LTE as Telus has given no one any updates if there LTE network is going to be deployed any time in the near future. Bell and Rogers are ignoring a massive market with an appetite for speed.
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Rogers’ roll-out plan as the first 6 cities were Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary. The first 4 are done, and slowly growing. That means that in terms of next-big LTE rollout, Alberta will be getting plenty of love.
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Is this for the polar bears? I didn’t even realize people lived up there…
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Hey Bell employee(s) giving the thumbs down…spare a second from lying to your customers and stick that thumb up your @ss.
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LTE in -35C.. hell yes…
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Western Canada has NO LTE coverage yet,10 million+ versus 200,000 mmm.Rogers going North of 60?I thought it is Dec7/11 not April.Rogers should buildup Sask,BC first.
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Bell owns and operates the towers out East. In Vancouver and Alberta, it’s Telus who has reciprocal agreement with Bell. Western Canada, it’s Bell using Telus and vice versa in the East. This is common knowledge. Hence it’s Telus dragging their feet in the LTE deployment in BC.
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Is it for polar bears? No, i***t – it’s for the city that’s the diamond capital of north america. So many of you i****s on these forums neglect that the big three pay A LOT of money into research and development. Yellowknife from a communications perspective is a goldmine! (or diamond mine!)
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I bet you it costs a fortune for an LTE plan in Yellowknife.
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I do not really know what the big deal is with LTE…Is it faster…yeah, but the data plans are ridiculously priced!!! As usual Canadian cell phone carriers screw their ccustomers and we say yes sir may I have another and ratehr than complain about the prices many people here complain they don’t have it? Complain about the right things guys and gals C’mon!!!
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Info4theMasses, the agreement is for HSPA/HSPA+. I don’t think it includes LTE (otherwise they would merge).
BTW, Telus and Bell have swapped some cities, so it’s not a West/East split.
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This is all political.
The Bell is making a few deployments here and there, outside of the main cities. Then they will argue, if we had 700 we could cover everyone in rural areas, instead of just a few
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