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Rogers expands LTE coverage in Toronto and Vancouver, now reaches 8 million Canadians

By on December 12, 2011 at 8:41am in Mobile News, Rogers Wireless News


The Canadian LTE race is still on, very much heated, between Rogers and Bell. Both companies are quickly expanding coverage area – last week Bell turned on the LTE speed in Yellowknife, and today Rogers has announced they now reach 8 million Canadians, up from 5.5 million with their original coverage.

The Rogers LTE coverage has been expanded in Toronto and Vancouver areas. For those in the GTA, residents of Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, and Markham can access peak download speeds of “up to 75 Mbps”, however, “typical download speeds ranging from 12 Mbps to 25 Mbps”. In addition, Vancouver customers, Rogers is first to bring West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Port Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, Surrey and Maple Ridge LTE coverage.

Rogers noted that the “LTE network will expand to more than 30 per cent of the population by the end of 2011.” Device wise, Rogers has the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE, HTC Raider LTE, HTC Jetstream (tablet) and a couple internet sticks.

Source: CNW

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  4. Rogers expands Manitoba coverage: “Welcome to the world of choice, speed and innovation”

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24 comments for “Rogers expands LTE coverage in Toronto and Vancouver, now reaches 8 million Canadians”

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    Posted by benji | December 12, 2011, 8:45 am
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    • Wind doesn’t have LTE coverage

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      Posted by Cole | December 12, 2011, 8:59 am

    • I think Cole spelt “good” wrong

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      Posted by Hum? | December 12, 2011, 9:29 am

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      Posted by T1MB1T | December 12, 2011, 11:47 am

    • You couldn’t be more wrong. AWS is NOT LTE. They have HSPA, not even HSPA+. they will not have LTE unless they buy LTE antennas, and install them on the towers. They are NOT ready to go.

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      Posted by Adam | December 12, 2011, 12:27 pm

    • adam time to go back to school! WIND is LTE and you are not!

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      Posted by T1MB1T | December 12, 2011, 4:47 pm

  2. CityRogers LTE! :P

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    Posted by Alex Perrier | December 12, 2011, 8:52 am
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  3. You have to pay extra to get extra.. Want coverage out of a select few cities..want lte, you’ve got to pay extra.. I’ll pay sixty a month for my lte heck I’ll pay it for Mt coverage.. Is the company makes big bucks they have the bucks to spend on my service

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    Posted by Doug | December 12, 2011, 9:03 am
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  4. Looks like we’ll have to rely on Bell to get LTE in Kuujjuak.. ;-)

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    Posted by wewewi | December 12, 2011, 9:07 am
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  5. Hmm not bad by Rogers, however Bell is still behind in terms of the GTA LTE coverage. They should have focused more in the major cities and their suburbs in my opinion and they go expanding in Yellowknife which will be good for those selected people there who use cellphones and such but here where its concentrated, people are left out.

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    Posted by EmperumanV | December 12, 2011, 9:09 am
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    • I suspect Bell launched in Yellowknife purely for marketing purposes, it will have virtually no impact on subscriber numbers.

      By launching in Yellowknife Bell are able to add 1+ to the number of cities they serve, they can claim have coverage in X+1 cities compared to Rogers.

      Of course Rogers will respond to say they cover a population of 8+ Million which is better than X cities (which is rather true).

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      Posted by JMason | December 12, 2011, 10:33 am

  6. I got a Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE recently.. I used it for a week or so.. went back to my 9900. 4.5″ screen is huge, uncomfortable to hold, bulky and ugly.

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    Posted by TheTigerTek | December 12, 2011, 9:29 am
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    • its a matter of prefrence. coming from an iphone i love my sgslte. the size is perfect becuse i don’t mash keys typing and websites look amazing.

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      Posted by doug | December 12, 2011, 9:31 am

    • since you have girly hands I am not surprised! Get on a real network WIND!!!

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      Posted by T1MB1T | December 12, 2011, 6:49 pm

  7. Nice LTE is now out in my area … except i’m with telus and getting a Galaxy Nexus…

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    Posted by Sean | December 12, 2011, 9:52 am
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  8. I’ve hit 44mbps down and 27mbps up on ky rogers lte device in Brampton :)

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    Posted by mark | December 12, 2011, 10:45 am
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      Posted by T1MB1T | December 12, 2011, 11:49 am

  9. @ T1Mb1T

    who is Tony?

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    Posted by ToEachTheirOwn | December 12, 2011, 9:33 pm
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    • Tony is the owner of wind, the boss, the head guy! he is the guy who walks the walk and talks the talk. He is the guy that the big 3 fear! you know who he is you fool!

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      Posted by T1MB1T | December 13, 2011, 10:34 am

  10. Hey Timbitch, AWS isn’t LTE. AWS is Advanced Wireless Services…LTE is Long Term Evolution…2 completely separate technologies. Perhaps it is you who needs to go back to school.

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    Posted by 2dfx | December 12, 2011, 10:04 pm
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    • you and your girlfriends can all go and stick with the big 3! Tony says it is so! Why argue wind is the leader in all this! No contracts coverage everywhere! We are taking the big 3 to court to stop them from blocking the signal! 1 tower on wind is as good as 100 on the big 3 but they are blocking us!!! once the power of AWS is unleashed then you all will be a faithful customer!

      besides your mom loves AWS!

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      Posted by T1MB1T | December 13, 2011, 10:37 am

  11. a simple wiki search could educate you on the differences between AWS and LTE.

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    Posted by ToEachTheirOwn | December 12, 2011, 11:05 pm
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  12. It’s funny to see people all over the internet like T1Mb1T that post nonsense. Even funnier is seeing people that get aggravated by the crap they post behind a computer in their mom’s basement.

    Looks like Rogers’ LTE coverage is as large or larger than Mobilicity’s GTA coverage?

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    Posted by Internet Loser | December 13, 2011, 4:09 pm
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  13. Yay! Fast speeds and $100 phone bills!

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    Posted by delumen | December 13, 2011, 6:31 pm
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