Wind coming to Canada

[adam917]

Is anyone here aware of Bell & Telus' new shared 850/1900 MHz HSPA+ network?

[PhotoJim]

Originally Posted by adam917

Is anyone here aware of Bell & Telus' new shared 850/1900 MHz HSPA+ network?

It's coming soon, probably this year still.

Rogers is sharing with MTS Mobility in Manitoba (Rogers is already GSM/HSUPA while MTS is CDMA/EvDO & CDMA/1x). Rogers will help MTS deploy 3G GSM in areas where Rogers currently has no coverage, and both providers' customers will be able to use the service. Good deal for all, methinks.

The only outlier is here in Saskatchewan where SaskTel Mobility's HDPA network is seriously delayed, perhaps as much as a year. That means that unless Bell and Telus get a roaming agreement with Rogers, GSM/HSPA customers of both networks will have no service coverage here at all until late next year or early 2011.

[Stu]

Yesterday's Globe & Mail noted that the CTRC has shut down Wind Mobile. They found that it had excessive foreign control and that the real owners of Wind was Orascom. Wind is appealing.

[rockjock]

Stu it was pretty clear that Orascom was in charge. They held all the debt, had all the experts and none of the control? The CRTC could not get over that point. It simply made no sense They will appeal but that may take months.. So for now No Wind, maybe they will find another name..

Originally Posted by Stu

Yesterday's Globe & Mail noted that the CTRC has shut down Wind Mobile. They found that it had excessive foreign control and that the real owners of Wind was Orascom. Wind is appealing.

[adam917]

Originally Posted by rockjock

Stu it was pretty clear that Orascom was in charge. They held all the debt, had all the experts and none of the control? The CRTC could not get over that point. It simply made no sense They will appeal but that may take months.. So for now No Wind, maybe they will find another name..

I guess that now means even less incentive for manufacturers to make AWS-compatible 3G devices.