Comments on: Rogers Wireless announces 7.2Mbps HSPA service trials in Canada

By: E. Joseph

E. Joseph — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:56:23 +0000

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

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:42:06 +0000

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.

By: Will Park

Will Park — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:58:41 +0000

LOL
“then be in serious debt an hour later”

Funny cuz it’s true!

By: Rob H

Rob H — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:52:03 +0000

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.