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Rogers HSPA+ 21mbps Rollout Starting August – Using Special RIM Devices for Speed Testing

by Ronen Halevy on Jul 30th, 2009 at 3:30 am EST
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rogers-hspa One of our Secret Agents in the Great White North let me in on some of the details of Rogers HSPA+ rollout plans. Rogers did put out an announcement earlier this week that they are testing out HSPA+ but since I am not that privy to Canadian carriers I passed on writing it up. Now that I understand more I can actually write something intelligible.

The interesting tidbit I learned was that Rogers is using special RIM testing devices (that will never be sold) to test out their HSPA+ networks for raw speed transmissions. That plays right into the hand that RIM is working on some HSPA enabled devices but I have also been hearing that they plan to jump directly to LTE. Who knows…

Rogers is rolling out HSPA+ which has a theoretical maximum of 21mbps. That is about 3 times faster than what is available now and so far has only been rolled out in Australia by Telstra. Actual speeds range around 7mbps from what I hear.

No handsets will be out with HSPA+ on Rogers for the next year and major city rollouts will start in August and continue through the following months and they are aiming to finish main cities by February. 4G/LTE is also scheduled to launch in Canada around the Olympics.

Looks like the annoying $6.95 System Access pure profit Fee is paying for something

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4 Comments to “Rogers HSPA+ 21mbps Rollout Starting August – Using Special RIM Devices for Speed Testing”

  1. Posted by: Andrew
    July 30, 2009 at 4:09 am EST

    1) RIM already has HSDPA devices in the Bold and Storm.
    2) Rogers is going to be the 6th carrier to have 21Mbps HSDPA+
    3) There will be a HSDPA+ device in a Rocket Stick
    4) No, there will be no LTE in time for the 2010 Olympics.

    Fail as usual.

  2. Posted by: Ronen Halevy
    July 30, 2009 at 4:28 pm EST

    Andrew
    HSDPA is not HSPA+ – You should read up on it!
    Rogers is not the first or the last to have it but they are up there
    Who cares if there will be a rocket stick?
    LTE is aimed to start rolling out around the olympics not totally launch around canada.

  3. Posted by: Brian
    July 31, 2009 at 9:29 am EST

    Rogers has LTE testing underway in the GTA and Vancouver Metro areas as we speak. Not that it’ll make a difference for anyone on the planet as there really aren’t handsets for it, but Rogers has a goal of having LTE up for the olympics in the Vancouver area.