Rogers Promises LTE at 150 Mbps

With Canadian's crazy low caps, there is no point to have speed and blow through monthly caps in a matter of minutes!

150mb down, 70 up with a 6gb cap and 0.03$/mb thereafter or 30.72$/gb (taken from the biggest wireless data package they offer for cell data). If actual downstream speed is around 100mb/sec, it means, it takes about 8 mins 11s to get over that cap and you can expect a charge of 22.50$/min thereafter at this downstream rate. Of course, Rogers doesn't seem to throttle wireless data like they do with their cable service... Wouldn't be as profitable.

I read BBR News religiously and yet don't remember any news items on how Canada hands out it's wireless spectrum to cell service providers. Anyone have any links on Canada's spectrum allocation procedures?

I did find these links:
Spectrum Auctions: »www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/sm ··· 854.html
»www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/sm ··· eng/home
»www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/sm ··· -eng.pdf

is this needed when we cannot even get 10Mb/900kb wired for a decent price?

If they do manage to to get LTE up and running at those speed chances are they will expect 1 dollar per megabyte or something.

They just had an auction about 2yrs ago, which allowed a few new players into the market.

Now with the transition to Digital TV almost complete, the 700mhz spectrum should be up for grabs. I don't see them giving it away, they'll have another auction and make a few billion on the deal.

Rogers doesn't want you to use heavy data.

On the contrary, rogers wants you to use heavy data, and make a lot of money off of low caps and overages.

"Just how fast is that? Imagine the following:

Everyone will be able to watch streaming movies and live HDTV on their mobile devices, with crisp picture and virtually no buffering or delays
Friends and families can video chat seamlessly – as natural as talking on the phone, with virtually no lag time
Gamers can play their favourite multiplayer games from almost anywhere
Businesses can implement a truly mobile workforce that is both as efficient and secure as a traditional workplace"
»iwantmylte.ca/think-fast/

Just was curious to know what's the reason behind crazy caps?

LTE is not up yet, but if we talk about Canadian wired broadband, they still have hard caps. Considering backbone running over DWDM, along with good links with US major ISP's - where really bottleneck comes?

Is there is any technical limitation/bottleneck in Canadian networks or it's just business model?

Depends on whether you consider rape a business model.