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| jesteraver |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Nacht
Hey Jesse you know your phones like a pro! Do you know if any phone company ever plans on doing some sort of unlimited internet in the future? This includes downloading not just browsing! |
In this country, probably wont happen until the CRTC changes certain laws.
If you want downloading from ur cellphone, best bet is wait until sometime in 2009, when like Nokia or HTC will have wimax built into their phones. At least the wimax (4G) with Bell or Rogers you can download upto like 10-20 gb or something. Thing is wimax is still sort of slow at the moment, but its pretty cheap per month.
Plus not sure if any companies on this planet let people download via tethering. They might do that in Korea or Japan, best bet is ask Jay in Korea. |
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| Dj Nacht |
| ill check out the wimax thing! been wanting unlimited internet on my phone for years! |
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| jesteraver |
uh OH
there might be an in-store activation for the new phone crap, thats in the US probably will happen here in Canada. Crap july 11th is going to be a nightmare |
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| malek |
Guys keep this in mind:
There will be new company/ies that will enter the 3G market in 2009 with probably lower prices. Don't get strapped with 3 years contract because the iphone is a cool gadget!!! |
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| jesteraver |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
Guys keep this in mind:
There will be new company/ies that will enter the 3G market in 2009 with probably lower prices. Don't get strapped with 3 years contract because the iphone is a cool gadget!!! |
Anyone remember how much rogers charges for breaking the contract?
A while back CIBC was cited for saying they were working with T-Mobile or something for the Canadian market.
2009 should be an interesting year for mobile customers in Canada.
Malek, did you hear any other news on the spectrum auction?
One thing I just wish the CRTC would get rid of the law, for only Canadian companies aloud in Canada or foreign companies can only own 40% of a Canadian company to run a wireless network or wtv.
[update] answering my own question Rogers charges upto $400 for breaking the contract wow.
Also AT&T has an unlimited data-plan for $30 US on the 3G. I wonder what we will get from Rogers. Probably the same but only on websites they want us on, which will suck ass. So we will be stuck paying like $100/month for 5 GB on 3G to surf wtv sites we want to visit (thats me speculating). I will be extremely shocked if Rogers has an unlimited plan for surfing wtv sites we want. |
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| malek |
I know Videotron is leading for the spectrum in Quebec.
The spectrum is reserved more or less at 40% for new entrants and the rest for everyone else.
Enchères pour le sans-fil canadien: plus ça monte, moins on en profite
Comme Québectech le craignait la semaine dernière, alors que s'ouvraient les enchères faites par Industrie Canada de nouvelles fréquences destinées à l'industrie des communications sans fil, il semble que la valeur atteinte par les offres faites à l'heure actuelle pourrait nuire à la fameuse baisse des coûts espérée par les consommateurs.
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Les enchères totalisaient ce matin 2,85 milliards de dollars, ce qui est plus élevé que ce que les analystes avaient prévu (encore qu'il ne devait pas être aisé de prévoir quoi que ce soit à ce sujet). Carmi Levy, un analyste torontois que je croise de temps à autres, est de ceux qui pensent que ça pourrait retarder la mise en place de nouveaux réseaux, et que ces nouveaux réseaux seront moins tentés d'offrir des tarifs réduits à leurs éventuels clients.
«Ça augmente le risque et les enjeux pour les nouveaux joueurs», a-t-il confié au Financial Post, hier. «Ça leur laisse moins de marge pour déployer de nouveaux services. Plus ils donnent d'argent au gouvernement, moins ils en ont pour mettre en place leur réseau.»
C'est ce que nous fait pourtant miroiter la direction de Vidéotron depuis des mois et des mois, elle qui espère mettre la main sur son propre réseau sans fil. La direction de Vidéotron a même déjà affirmé qu'elle n'aurait besoin que d'un an et demi, pour tout mettre en place.
Le Financial Post cite un autre analyste qui pense, au contraire, que les coûts encourus pourraient retarder un tel déploiement un peu plus, voire jusque dans trois ans. Selon le VP d'IDC Canada, l'élaboration d'un réseau sans fil naitonal pourrait coûter jusqu'à 1,5 milliard de dollars, sans compter le coût des enchères.
Telus et Bell passeraient au GSM
Comme on pouvait s'y attendre, les trois grands opérateurs déjà en place, Telus, Rogers et Bell, sont bien en selle, ayant misé les plus gros montants sur une partie de fréquences disponibles. La rumeur voulant que Bell et Telus en profitent pour lancer des nouveaux réseaux sans fil basés sur la technologie GSM, qu'utilisent déjà Rogers et sa filiale Fido, s'en trouve du même coup renforcée.
De son côté, Quebecor semble bien parti pour obtenir les fréquences désirées afin de lancer son réseau indépendant au Québec. Sa filiale Vidéotron a les reins suffisamment solides, financièrement, pour absorber les effets de la surenchère, ce qui n'a pas été le cas de trois autres nouveaux joueurs ailleurs au pays, qui ont déjà annoncé qu'ils se retiraient de la course.
Publié par Alain McKenna le jeudi 5 juin 2008 à 13H21 |
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| jesteraver |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
I know Videotron is leading for the spectrum in Quebec.
The spectrum is reserved more or less at 40% for new entrants and the rest for everyone else.
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It should be interesting to see Videotron become larger and have their own actual network and not having to rely on Rogers network.
2010 should be interesting to see if Telus actually switches to GSM, which would mean Bell stuck with CDMA, true Telus and Bell Mobility can go into business with each other :nervous: |
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| malek |
| The text says that Bell and Telus will be switching too. |
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| jesteraver |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
The text says that Bell and Telus will be switching too. |
jajajaja just saw that now. my bad.
i've been checking up on the 2.0 firmware apps right now, there is a few interesting apps, one is called loopt and the other called typepad.
loopt keeps track of ur friends location and what not and typepad is pretty much blogging on the go.
anyways it should be interesting having visual voicemail for once, even though people don't call lol
all i have to say mobileme going to be pretty cool seeing i always put stuff on my calendar in my phone, so at least now when i put something on the calendar in my phone i can push it to the calendar on my computer :)
one thing i have to say the crackberry finished or until crackberry comes out with something like the iphone which is in the works. |
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| malek |
to make this a blackberry killer, it should open office files!
Where's the GCalendar synchronizer? |
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| jesteraver |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
to make this a blackberry killer, it should open office files!
Where's the GCalendar synchronizer? |
guess i didnt send my last post lol... guess that is true about the open office... just sucks that the iphone will have an iwork viewer or wtv u want to call it... so u can read word, excel and powerpoint presentations. oh yah too bad it can't read pdf files :(
thing about the GCal sycn, not sure about that one... guess there will be an app sooner or later.
now to go OT, OS X 10.6 within a year, just hope it wont up CS3 :( also another note sucks CS4 on mac will not use 64-bit, and we mac users need to wait until CS5.
CS [OCT 03-APR 05]
CS2 [APR 05-APR 07]
CS3 [APR 07-APR 09]*
CS4 [APR 09-APR 11]*
CS5 [APR 11-APR 13]*
* guestimation |
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| malek |
| there's an iwork viewer?? they don't say so on apple's website. |
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