"MONTREAL, Quebec, Oct. 10 2008 -- Bell today announced a
significant strategic investment in its Third Generation (3G) wireless network
capabilities to ensure it offers Canadians the complete range of high-speed
mobile data coverage, services and handset options. The investment also
confirms the company's migration path to the global Fourth Generation (4G)
Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard.
"Investing in broadband networks and services and accelerating wireless
are strategic imperatives for the Bell team, and they are key to achieving our
goal - to be recognized by customers as Canada's leading communications
company," said George Cope, President and Chief Executive Officer of BCE and
Bell Canada.
"This investment initiative builds on our industry-leading wireless
service - which already offers access to the largest and fastest network
across North America- to deliver Canadians the broadest choice in high-speed
wireless service, while confirming our path forward to LTE, the global 4G
wireless broadband standard."
Maximizing choice in wireless
As it continues to expand and enhance its national 3G CDMA/EVDO service,
Bell will also overlay this industry-leading network with HSPA technology,
maximizing the latest-generation wireless options the company can offer
customers across Canada.
Bell wireless customers will be able to choose between EVDO - already the
dominant 3G standard in Canada and across North America - and HSPA, which is
rapidly becoming the main platform with carriers outside North America. At the
same time, overlaying HSPA on its national network will offer Bell the most
efficient upgrade path to the 4G LTE broadband standard in coming years.
"This network initiative is proof positive of Bell's new 'better' brand
promise - in this case, 'Wireless just got better.' We fully anticipate that
our expanded national 3G networks will continue to offer Canadian consumers
and business clients the best and broadest coverage and now with an unbeatable
range of high-speed handsets and service options," said Wade Oosterman,
President of Bell Mobility and Chief Brand Officer for Bell. "As the exclusive
telecommunications partner to the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, we look
forward to delivering these enhanced capabilities before Canada hosts the
world in 2010."
Fourth Generation LTE
LTE is the 4G wireless broadband standard that will be rolled out
globally post-2010, delivering extremely fast broadband mobile data speeds and
a wide range of new mobile multimedia and personalized data services.
"Bell's transition to the global 4G LTE standard with a combined EVDO and
HSPA network path aligns us with more than 30 major carriers worldwide
planning a similar move to LTE," said Stephen Howe, Senior Vice President,
Wireless Network and Chief Technology Officer for Bell Mobility. "This broad
global technology ecosystem will mean a fast, efficient and cost-effective
network transition to 4G LTE, and access to the broadest possible range of
next-generation phones and data services."
Bell will greatly reduce time to market for its network overlay by
leveraging its existing national network-sharing agreement with TELUS
Corporation. The agreement was originally established in 2001 to ensure the
fast delivery of and increased competition in national mobile data services,
especially in rural and remote areas.
Following a comprehensive vendor evaluation process, Bell has chosen
Nokia Siemens Networks and Huawei as infrastructure providers for its national
network overlay."
VERTiG0
Yay 4G.
E2EK1EL
Windows coming to the iPhone ???
Remember that rumor about Steve Jobs having a heart attack that went around not too long ago? Well, it might just be true as soon as Stevo catches wind of this one. The video above shows a brief interview from MyPhone 2008 with a young Norweigan developer named Erik Kristiansen. While Kristiansen might not be the smoothest talker in Vegas, he has managed to put together quite a piece of software. As he explains in the video, he has essentially created bootcamp for the iPhone. When the phone powers on, the user must select between booting OS X and Windows Mobile. No you didn’t misread anything there, we said Windows Mobile! Woh. We’re not sure if iPhone users will exactly be clamoring get Windows Mobile fired up on their iPhones but it might actually be pretty nice to rock an iPhone with an OS that allows things like copy / paste and background processes for third-party apps. Kristiansen is aiming to release his work to the public this coming January and it will be open source. Of course you shouldn’t expect to see this one hit the app store - only jailbroken iPhones need apply. By the way, pretty harsh final question from Ms. Young, no? At least the kid responded politely. We might have commented on Jessica’s slight manliness as opposed to taking the high road as young Kristiansen did. No, seriously - she’s a maaaaaaaaan, maaaaaaaaan.
*** Wonder how smooth it will be? ***
E2EK1EL
Just talked to some sales guys from Telus at my work.
They have confirmed 4G LTE network will be GSM.
*** LOL these sales guys are using some super old ass BB, come on ... your rep'in the company, use some update at least. ***
Orko
With the pace of 3G and 4g accelerating, and people are getting pretty good speeds, I think WiMax may become useless for the city. Rogers has stopped pushing their WiMax service in toronto, and is now pushing their 'usb 3g stick' for mobile internet.
dEsidEL
quote:
Originally posted by Orko
With the pace of 3G and 4g accelerating, and people are getting pretty good speeds, I think WiMax may become useless for the city. Rogers has stopped pushing their WiMax service in toronto, and is now pushing their 'usb 3g stick' for mobile internet.
yeah AT&T has already been pushing this hard in the US too
wonder if it'll also spell the death of satellite radio if you can simply stream all your music instead
Orko
Nah. They won't have 3g connectivity in rural areas, and outside the city. It only makes sense for them to put the transmitters and receivers in high density areas. Plus with the download caps the ISPs seems to love, I'm sure you could eat through your limit in no time.
smuncky
quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL
wonder if it'll also spell the death of satellite radio if you can simply stream all your music instead
i think it'll depend on the pricing.
exstasie
quote:
Originally posted by Orko
Nah. They won't have 3g connectivity in rural areas, and outside the city. It only makes sense for them to put the transmitters and receivers in high density areas. Plus with the download caps the ISPs seems to love, I'm sure you could eat through your limit in no time.
Tell me about it.
I'm 6 days into my billing cycle and i've already used 11.847GB.
Only 49.592GB left :eek:
Not having enough bandwidth is worse than being broke!
dEsidEL
quote:
Originally posted by exstasie
Tell me about it.
I'm 6 days into my billing cycle and i've already used 11.847GB.
Only 49.592GB left :eek:
Not having enough bandwidth is worse than being broke!
it's like going to an all u can eat buffet and telling you that you're only limited to 2 plates within a 1 hour span. all u can eat my arse.
Dr. Z
So I'm importing all the contacts off of my SIM card onto my storm, and I really need to manage them better. I have duplicate enteries for all my europe numbers. Like a +38162 for when calling from here a 062 when I'm over there and calling local... etc.
Can I just rename all of them with (+ country code) + number so I can just call them from wherever?
I know here, you can just dial +1 infront of every number, so you don't have to deal with being in Toronto or outside of it.
I guess my questions are:
1. Can you just append (+ country code) infront of every number so you dont have to deal with that anymore?
2. Do you get unnecessary long distance charges? Like if I'm in Toronto and I call my friend with another 416 number but I use +1416, will Rogers ream me?
exstasie
quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Z
So I'm importing all the contacts off of my SIM card onto my storm, and I really need to manage them better. I have duplicate enteries for all my europe numbers. Like a +38162 for when calling from here a 062 when I'm over there and calling local... etc.
Can I just rename all of them with (+ country code) + number so I can just call them from wherever?
I know here, you can just dial +1 infront of every number, so you don't have to deal with being in Toronto or outside of it.
I guess my questions are:
1. Can you just append (+ country code) infront of every number so you dont have to deal with that anymore?
2. Do you get unnecessary long distance charges? Like if I'm in Toronto and I call my friend with another 416 number but I use +1416, will Rogers ream me?
When you say Storm, you mean the new Blackberry right?
1. Yes, just enter the phone nubmber with the appropriate country at the front.
2. No, I have every single one of my phone numbers to automatically default to +1 on my Pearl, and don't get charged long distance.
