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Rogers currently testing LTE in Sudbury
Rogers promised to go live with LTE service in 10 cities by October 1st – Kingston, Edmonton, Quebec City, Oakville, Burlington, London, Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Barrie. Some of them are already active. The greater goal by then end of 2012 is to bring the fast data speeds to 20 million Canadians. In addition to [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note II coming “this fall” to Bell, TELUS, WIND, Rogers, Mobilicity, Videotron and SaskTel
The Samsung Galaxy Note II is big, has the S PEN, and is coming to Canada. This “new category of device” is a follow up to the original 5.3-inch phone/tablet and will sport a 5.5-inch display (resolution of 1280×720). So far we’ve been informed that Rogers, TELUS and WIND Mobile will be releasing this device [...]
Rogers users reporting LTE service is live in Kingston, London and Kelowna
Rogers has a goal to bring LTE (Long Term Evolution) speeds to 20 million Canadians by the end of 2012. They recently expanded into Moncton and also declared that several new locations would be up and running by October 1st, specifically Ajax, Burlington, Cambridge, Edmonton, Kelowna, Kingston, Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, London, Oakville, Saskatoon, Windsor, Winnipeg, [...]
Rogers says “Canada’s first real foray into mobile payments” is coming soon, plans to launch a niche credit card
Rogers is planning to go a bit deeper into your wallet soon – the virtual wallet that is. The largest carrier in Canada filed an application last year to establish the “Rogers Bank.” This isn’t a bunch of physical stores, but the goal is to offer their customers a niche credit card and various mobile [...]
Update: Rogers states that over 30,000 customers have “received their shipment notices” for the iPhone 5, Fido says “over 9,500″
This is something that I’ve never seen before. Usually carriers are incredibly shy to report any numbers, but Rogers has once again claimed to be first. On their website they’ve written that “Over 8,300 of our customers have received their shipment notices for the hottest new phone via the Rogers Reservation System.” Of course this [...]
Rogers locations starting to receive iPhone 5 shipments
Shipments of Apple’s iPhone 5 are slowly trickling into Canadian retail locations – the latest is from Rogers. As you can see by the image a full box load has arrived, specifically in the “white & silver” version. Rogers, along with Bell, TELUS, Virgin, Fido and Koodo will be the first carriers in Canada to [...]
LG Optimus G coming to Bell, TELUS and Rogers “early November”
LG held a few media events today, one in New York City and one in Toronto. You can check out our full hands-on of the 4.7-inch quad-core LTE device here. The Optimus G runs Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but LG promises to bring an upgrade to OS 4.1 Jelly Bean “in early Q2 [...]
Canadian carriers on iPhone 5 pre-orders: Great, Strong, and “one of the best releases to date”
Apple opened up pre-orders last Friday at 12:01 PST and in 24-short hours they crossed the 2 million milestone mark. Canada is among the initial countries that will launch the new iPhone on September 21st, along with the US, Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK. Unfortunately Apple didn’t give any specific [...]
Update: nano-SIM cards start arriving at Rogers, Fido, Bell, and TELUS locations
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 ditched the use of a micro-SIM and opted to progress towards a nano-SIM, which is apparently a product they designed. The measurements of the LTE-capable nano-SIM come in at a tiny 8.8 x 12.3mm and Rogers, one of the Canadian carriers that will release the iPhone 5 on September 21st, has [...]
Rogers expanding LTE service to 10 new cities by October 1st
Rogers previously announced plans to expand their LTE coverage in various Canadian cities, but never gave a firm date, only that we should expect 60% of Canada covered by the end of 2012. Over the past few weeks we’ve been tipped that Rogers was actively testing LTE, but today they’ve declared 10 more locations will [...]
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