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Is Rogers Wireless in Trouble?

reply to elwoodblues
buff even with Bell or Telus in the mix with the iPhony you won't see any real competition either.

reply to elwoodblues
and who knows what the coverage will be like when they launch their network anyway.

i think people that switch carriers quite often do so not for the hardware (although the iPhone is a strange one that way), but moreso for other reasons (like bad customer service experience, poor coverage, etc)...rarely did i have someone switch due to hardware, and on the off chance i did get one, i cautioned them on basing their decision on that alone.
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reply to elwoodblues
I think it's awfully early to suggest Rogers wireless is in trouble. They may be facing some new competitive pressures, yes.

reply to elwoodblues
Telus/Bell do not look at all attractive in comparison especially their data plans. It's only going to have an effect on current customers.

Remember this is HSPA overlaying the CDMA network, so it's going to take a while to build up the new network in terms of users, and until the network is widespread they'll still be selling CDMA phones. It's going to take at least a few years until they're transitioned (with all these 3 year contracts out there on new phones).

So, no, Rogers won't be in trouble.

I assume they would also have to offer legacy support for many years after those contracts are up before they could pull the plug officially on CDMA.

reply to sbrook
sbrook / dirtyjeffer

I've got the insider tips suggesting Bell & TELUS would set their benchmark relatively high: to meet or exceed what Rogers HSPA footprint and reliability within a set time frame.

To get some idea what their HSPA network would become, take a look on Page 6 & 7 in this PDF file...

»gsmworld.com/documents/GSMA_Feb_···elus.pdf

But as for Rogers, no sweat! It has been leading ahead of the pact and already paying off its investment in GSM migration already and now moving on w/ the WCDMA/UMTS/HSPA.

What would be interesting to see, is the new entrants: Quebecor, DAVE, Globalive, Public Wireless, etc. How well they will do & how long will they survive?

reply to Robrr
Robrr,

Certainly, the existing CDMA/CDMA2000 (and iDEN w/ TELUS as well) networks won't disappear for another long while. But we'd expect both Bell & TELUS will encourage their subscribers to migrate once the HSPA deployment becomes smooth sailing.

reply to elwoodblues
Rogers Wireless is definitely not in trouble.. they have a game plan for most scenarios any of the new entrants + Bellus will offer... as someone said, more competitive, yes... trouble, no.

But I would agree that they have the most to lose in terms of churn (as they are no. 1, so no where to go but down)... but I think we'll see more competitive plans in the next year or so, the winner will be the customers in the end (I hope!).

reply to elwoodblues
Wonder if ROGERS will lease out access to Bell / Telus until they get their own network inplace?

If it's going to happen either way, Rogers may as well make some money from them in the process.

More like charge users for roaming!

reply to gsm234