Rogers was first to successfully launched an LTE network in Canada back in July 2011. These blazing fast speeds came at a premium and were only originally available in a limited area in Ottawa. Rogers gradually rolled out LTE to other locations – this year the goal is to expand coverage to reach 20 million Canadians. Bell, and recently TELUS, have launched their LTE networks across Canada and both have plans to expand their device lineup and coverage map in 2012.
Now that we have 3 very active LTE networks, Rogers thinks it’s time for an LTE speed test contest. Instead of Rogers continually promoting how fast their network is compared to Bell and TELUS, they’re asking customers to participate and giving the opportunity to win an HTC Jetstream LTE tablet (valued at a whopping $900). The contest starts today and goes until February 27th, and here’s what you have to do:
1. Use your Rogers LTE device (Raider, Galaxy SII LTE, Galaxy Note, Rocket Sticks or the hotspot)
2. Record your speed results from either speedtest.rogers.com or testvitesse.rogers.com
3. Send an email with a screenshop of your highest “speedtest”, along with your name, email address and device to redboardfeedback@rci.rogers.com, or infosfilrouge@rci.rogers.com
4. Rogers will publish your results on their RedBoard blog and you’ll be entered to win the Jetstream
There’s a couple noted details that I found reading over the fine print in the terms and conditions. First, users cannot submit an email that’s exceeds 2MB, fine. Next, users who participate in this contest can only “show LTE speeds of 25 MBps or more”. This is interesting. Rogers states that their LTE network can reach “maximum theoretical download speeds of up to 100 Mbps”, but “typical download speeds of 12-25 Mbps”… so if you really want to win this Jetstream tablet make sure you do lots of speed tests and submit the highest results, but Rogers states that the winner will randomly picked. When we tested between Rogers and Bell we found that Rogers was clocking in between 25-29Mbps
No other word if Rogers will use the results you send in for future advertising/marketing campaigns.
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