Rogers Wireless announces 7.2Mbps HSPA service trials in Canada
By Will Park on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 at 11:20 AM PST In Announcements, Rogers, Services
While the US plays catch-up with Canada’s Rogers (NYSE: RCI) Wireless’ HSPA network, the No. 1 GSM carrier up north has just announced plans to boost its wireless broadband speeds to 7.2Mbps. The Rogers Wireless HSPA trial has gone live in Montreal and Brampton – but we’re not sure what the trial parameters are.
Either way, there are going to be some happy 7.2Mbps HSPA testers in Montreal and Brampton. We just wish we could get a taste of some super-highspeed broadband from the likes of AT&T (NYSE: T). Not that the super-high speeds will make mobile web browsing any faster – the page-viewing bottleneck usually lies in processing and rendering speeds of mobile devices, rather than the connection speed. But it’d be nice to get cable-broadband speeds over the air and onto our laptops.
Enjoy that 7.2Mbps, you lucky Canadians, you.
lol – at those speeds, you’ll be able to surf for about 10 seconds. Then you’ll have to pay $25/MB.
So yeah, a few people will be lucky for about 10 seconds, then be in serious debt an hour later.
Good old Rogers.
LOL
“then be in serious debt an hour later”
Funny cuz it’s true!
Hilarious, on the Rogers data plan no one will be able to use the device for more than 15 minutes…
Anyway, this isn’t that great, in Australia Telstra are testing 22.5kbps HSPA mobile networks, and next year will roll out 45 kbps…
AND they’ll have data plans which people can actually afford.
In Dec. 2008 We finally got this system in Northeastern Ontario, Timmins/Kirkland Lake (Canada)area. It does not work that great.
The system is quite slow as there are often bottlenecks at the Rogers system in Toronto. One can wait up to 10 minutes for a web page to download as compared to 1 minute on dial up. My download speeds are on average 123 kbps and slow down even more at times, a very far cry from their advertised 7.2g speeds. And the Data download plan they have is pathetic for what they pay per gigabits per second and the cost we are being charged, Rogers is making a big bundle. We are charged by volume and not time: 25 dollars CDN for 512 megabites, $30 for 1 gig and 70 for 2 gigabytes per month. This includes the total of downloads and uploads together. An additional 3 cents per kilobyte is charged if you go over the amount stated in your plan. Then there is an additionnal access fee of $6.95 and applicable taxes.
Therefore it is quite expensive for the limitations the service offers. So don’t be so happy for us yet, LOL