Rogers to conduct first Canadian LTE technical trial

By on Oct 6, 2010 at 5:40 PM
General October 6, 2010

Verizon isn’t the only wireless company making LTE news today. Canadian carrier Rogers Communications has announced the launch of a “comprehensive Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network technical trial with Ericsson Canada in the Ottawa area.” The company will initially use AWS spectrum for the trial, but notes that it is “working with Industry Canada to secure a development license to use 700 MHz spectrum.” Bob Berner, Rogers’ EVP and CTO, said, “Through this trial we will validate how LTE technology will perform in real world situations across a variety of spectrum frequencies in urban, suburban, and rural environments. Furthermore, we will verify LTE data throughput speeds, performance quality, and interoperability of LTE with our existing advanced HSPA+ network ensuring that future commercial deployment enables the best customer experience.” Welcome to the 4G party Canadian friends.

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  • d(*_*)b

    first to comment booyaka!

    • Mgl323

      !akayoob tnemmoc ot tsrif

      • sirpaul

        3rd to downrank both of you….”booyaka”.

    • krolo

      only fagz and dumbazz kids do this $hit

  • MacMan

    Oh yeah eh ?

    • sirpaul

      Just so you know, Canadians don’t actually say “eh” a lot.

      • MacMan

        Just so you know I have close Canadian friends and yes they say it lot. Maybe not everyone. ( obviously common sense would tell you that eh) but my friends do.

      • sirpaul

        I live in Kitchener, and no1 says eh a lot. Very rare so idk what the deal is with your friends lol. My neighbor used to say it all the time but no1 else.

      • MacMan

        Well since Kitchener is all of Canada then I guess you win. Eh !!!

      • Clayton McIntyre

        I’m Canadian,I didn’t think I did until someone started pointing it out….turns out i say it quite often.

  • Jemontz

    Eh?

    • Shelton

      Huh?

  • trooth

    It doesn’t matter Sprint via Clearwire has more bandwidth, blah blah blah. Beat you to it Sprint employees.

  • Norm

    Validate – really? – two posts below is Verizon’s massive LTE rollout. Validate this!

  • http://canadiantechblogger.com Brad

    Hmm…could work *maybe*.

  • Rocker

    I live way up North in Canada, I’m talking 8hrs drive north of Toronto and we don’t say eh….back to the topic. I’ve got 3G but 4G/LTE would be nice for my Torch :) , Wifi does the trick when I’m home anyways.a

    • MacMan

      Dude it’s alright, let it go. It’s not a bad word it’s just something some Canadians say.

  • JAmes

    yyeeaaahhhhhh LTE baby. Bell and Telus just switched watch Rogers convert to **4G** next year

    • Matt

      Convert to 4G? Don’t think so.. Rogers is testing LTE on the AWS bands.., they have no intention of rolling it out on AWS, but rather the 700 MHz range, spectrum that the Canadian government has yet to license. Good luck with that 4G roll-out next year. Maybe at the point Rogers will have figured out how to actually build a wireless network…

  • SVELTE

    I fucking hate Rogers

    • steve

      good we hate you too get off the network @#(*&!@#

      • SVELTE

        I recognize that tone of voice… same one I got every time I called customer service. Point and case.

  • Kalon Prensky

    Agreed. Rogers should get their 3G network working properly first before even attempting to look at LTE. Telus sad Bell has a way better 3G network because they have built their backhaul properly based on their EVDO current network.

    Rogers network is basically Canada’s AT@T. Telus/Bell is Canada’s Verizon

    • AW

      “Telus sad Bell has a way better 3G network because they have built their backhaul properly based on their EVDO current network.”

      This clearly demonstrates how much you know.
      If their EVDO network was so great they wouldn’t have abandoned it.
      If you’re saying that their HSPA network is great because their backhaul is based on their EVDO network, then you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and should shut up before you make yourself into a bigger fool.

    • steve

      Wow this comment shows that you no knowledge of wireless standards and technologies. GSM/UMTS are compatible services CDMA(EVDO)/UMTS are not compatible and the backhaul system for one has nothing to do with the other.

  • Kalon Prensky

    Sorry, should read Telus and Bell

  • Mr.Bill

    I hate Rogers myself too, though i am told they have the east locked down pretty good in coverage.SO i hear anyways.

    However, the rest is best served by Telus an Bell, which rule the west by far. Rogers in the west, lol is a joke all around.

    To think they had the upper hand at one point an let it slip away by milking their customers instead of forging ahead.

  • Arshad

    @AW – What do you think HSPA in Canada is based on, WCDMA. And what do you think WCDMA is an evolution of, CDMA. So come back once you’ve read up on it :-)

    • AW

      ROFL!!!

      Maybe you should read up on it first.

  • Fastwalking

    LTE is not 4G – LTE is not backwards compatible with 3G systems so carriers will have to either switch vompletely or offer both systems. It will be a difficult switch as very few phones offer 4G abilities.

    • steve

      4G refers to the current generation of technology in the wireless industry not any specific Type. LTE IS 4G The sameway that WIMAX is 4G. Clearly you’ve been watching far too many spring Commercials.

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