Good news for you Rogers subscribers out there as well as Canadians in general. The latest details from a Rogers conference have revealed some very positive news about Rogers’ proposed 4G network.
Here are some key points concerning their 4G network that will surely bring a smile to those who have been waiting for this next-generation data network to finally become available:
- Current download tests speed have reached 50 Mbps without any optimization involved
- Speeds at launch are expected to peak at 70 Mbps
- Rogers LTE network initially be available in Vancouver and the surrounding area, in time for the February 2010 Olympics
- It will eventually expand to regions outside of the Vancouver area during Q2 of 2010
- The service will launch with a USB modem stick. No 4G-enabled handsets will be offered during the launch date.
- Rogers will offer 4G phones by the end of Q2 as it extends its 4G network coverage outside Vancouver
- Rogers is taking the necessary measures to ensure that their 4G launch will go much smoother than their 3G launch
- Best of all, their 4G network is currently ahead of its development schedule
Unless something goes haywire between now and February of next year, it looks like 4G networks will most certainly become available to Canadians in 2010. Aside from Rogers, Bell and Telus have both already made an announcement that they plan to launch their LTE networks in the same year as well.
Now that we more or less know when to expect 4G to arrive, the question now is; when will mobile phone manufacturers start making 4G capable handsets available?
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Comments (11)
Dam them I live in a city with 65,000 and they have not upgraded us yet with 3g Brandon,Mb
This report is false. They are launching an HSPA+ upgrade (from HSDPA). LTE is still at least 3 years away for any of the canadian carriers. Check the source and see the comments showing the headline to be inaccurate.
People are confusing rumours without checking facts. HSPA+ and LTE are 2 very different things.
Rogers couldn’t launch LTE even if they had the equipment and hadnsets in inventory (which they don’t….there are no LTE handsets in existnace as of today) due to the fact the back-haul infrastructure (based on copper T1’s) cannot handle the additional bandwidth requiremetns of LTE.
Hey mike,
hate to break it to you, but this is completely accurate.
as you know telus and bell joined forces to create an hspa+ network which within the past month has come online. this has momentarily put them into first place in the canadian market as almost their entire network is hspa+ compared with rogers only covering major cities.
here is the fun part! rogers opted not to go with a full roll out on hspa+ like Bellus to instead focus on LTE. They went with major centres to compete in the mean time, because major cities still means they hit 76% of the canadian population with HSPA+, which telus and bell spent time and money making sure 90% of rural alberta can access mobile internet at blazing speeds (lol). So while all of this was going on, rogers has a MASSIVE rollout of lte coming before the second half of 2010, most likely the bulk of this coming before the back to school shopping season. This kind of roll out is going to take telus and bell another 2-3 years and 500 million dollars to once again catch up to rogers.
So to summarize, for now we see a 90% hspa for bellus, and a 76% for rogers, which come this time next year, will be 90% LTE for rogers and 76% for bellus.
not to mention rogers still has GSM and still doesn’t use hspa for voice, and if you’ve compared talking on a gsm phone to talking on an HSPA phone, you’ll know there is a reason GSM is still the global standard.
and last quick comment, part of the roll out of LTE for rogers included upgrades to all forms of infrastructure, from the towers to the “back haul infrastructure,” however as I’m sure you know, rogers is not like bellus in that they dont have a massive network of cables, which is why the vast majority of their calls go tower to tower, not tower to phone lines to tower.
so no, LTE is not 3 years away, LTE is 8 months away TOPS.
Have a good one!
Jeff
Systems installation technician for Nokia Siemens Networks
(aka the main contractor for the HSPA+ networks of both rogers and bellus, as well as the main contractor for rogers LTE network)
=D
@Jeff
Lol Telus is LTE is 2010 They want it in the Encana Bow.
Further more thats a pretty big breach of the confidentially agreement there jeff…
And on top of that bell is the official sponsor for the games wouldn’t they be putting it out. Last I checked Nokia and Telus relations aren’t that great… so I think maybe you should re check your facts mate. Oh and side not GSM is the standard because its all ready there and it would be to costly to upgrade CDMA is technologically superior.
i really want the 4g network come to toronto ontario because i really want a iphone 4g and whats Q2
@Daniel
Ho Ho Ho.. Hi Daniel..Its Santa, you didnt say please..
no apple touchscreen music game phones for you.
Really interesting information guys/gals. Here’s an interesting update though…. About 70% of Bell/Telus 3G network usage is currently being “leased” through their friends at Rogers! I wouldn’t count on their completion of their own nationwide 3G until early 2011. As for Rogers 4G, there is a real internal push to get this done ASAP to help them differentiate against the new providers in the market. Just don’t hold you breath for Q2 (second quarter of the year for u Daniel). Likely Q4 or even Q1 2011.
la_noob. wrote: “Oh and side not GSM is the standard because its all ready there and it would be to costly to upgrade CDMA is technologically superior”.
YOU SIR MUST BE AN ID10T. Sorry to say that but anyone reading your statement without some background in wireless communication might believe u. The simple statement you made that CDMA is technologically superior to GSM is COMPLETELY FALSE!!!!
both standards have made progress over time eg GSM>GPRS>EDGE>HSPA.
To be short the reason that GSM is taking over…. SIM CARD…..=move carrier and change phone easily.
More or less the 3G and future 4G technologies adapted by current carriers are based on GSM standards.
@Daniel
Sorry to break it to you, but the “iPhone 4″, does not support a 4G network.
It’s not called the iPhone 4G either.
hey so 2010 is almost over – where’s the LTE? (haha get it? like where’s the beef? anyway…)
looks like someone was trying to pull the wool over your eyes and pretend HSPA+ is really LTE.
True 4G has stationary downloads at 1 Gbits/s and mobile at 100 mbits/s. Rogers want have that network this year or next. Maybe a 4G wannabe network.
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