| Wireless broadband expansion changing the game Canada is going thru the same thing as the US in that the expansion of a competitive wireless environment(a new foreign competitor has just started up) with new higher speeds makes studies that only look at wired nets increasingly outdated.
The GSMA lists 17 HSPA mobile networks in the world operating at 21 Mbps. Three of them are in Canada, the only 3 in North America. |
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 andybPremium
join:2003-05-29
SW Ontario
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said by fAcEtIOUs:Canada is going thru the same thing as the US in that the expansion of a competitive wireless environment (a new foreign competitor has just started up) with new higher speeds makes studies that only look at wired nets increasingly outdated. The GSMA lists 17 HSPA mobile networks in the world operating at 21 Mbps. Three of them are in Canada, the only 3 in North America. Wireless will never be able to replace wired for its reliability and robustness. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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That's odd; T-Mobile is testing HSPA+ here in the States, and I know that at least Bend Broadband has an HSPA+ network. That said, we'll be skipping to LTE for our largest carriers (Verizon and AT&T) and WiMAX for Sprint.
That said, Canadians have HSPA+ pretty much wherever they go. We can say the same thing about EvDO, but not of HSPA/+/WIMAX/LTE. |
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brad
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON | reply to sonicmerlin
said by sonicmerlin:said by fAcEtIOUs:Canada is going thru the same thing as the US in that the expansion of a competitive wireless environment (a new foreign competitor has just started up) with new higher speeds makes studies that only look at wired nets increasingly outdated. The GSMA lists 17 HSPA mobile networks in the world operating at 21 Mbps. Three of them are in Canada, the only 3 in North America. Wireless will never be able to replace wired for its reliability and robustness. Or performance. |
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brad
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON | reply to iansltx
said by iansltx:That's odd; T-Mobile is testing HSPA+ here in the States, and I know that at least Bend Broadband has an HSPA+ network. That said, we'll be skipping to LTE for our largest carriers (Verizon and AT&T) and WiMAX for Sprint. Verizon has never had a UMTS network to "skip" anything.
said by iansltx:That said, Canadians have HSPA+ pretty much wherever they go. We can say the same thing about EvDO, but not of HSPA/+/WIMAX/LTE. That's not true at all. The carriers here do not even come close to having HSPA+ pretty much wherever we go.
Wireless Broadband will never replace wired services in any large numbers especially to home. It just doesn't come close with the performance, reliability or robustness. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | I never said that wireless will replace wired. However you guys have a full overlay on HSPA+, something that can't be said for US carriers. |
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Ravage_DPremium
join:2003-03-28
Kingston, ON Reviews:
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| said by iansltx:I never said that wireless will replace wired. However you guys have a full overlay on HSPA+, something that can't be said for US carriers. And a cap of 1 Gigabyte for $30/month.
Fantastic. |
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brad - in Atlantic Canada HSPA+ is everywhere. I was in remote Sussex NB at the ski hill this weekend(where they don't even have dialup about 14k) and could pull 3mbps on Bells new HSPA network. |
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