While the US plays catch-up with Canada’s Rogers 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. 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.