Rogers deploys Canada’s first 4G LTE network in Ottawa

By on Jul 8, 2011 at 2:42 AM
mobile July 8, 2011

On Thursday, Rogers and Ericsson officially activated the first Canadian 4G LTE network in Ottawa. “This network will power the next generation of innovative products and services in ways we’ve never seen before,” Rob Bruce, Rogers’ president of communications said. “[It] will be the backbone of Canada’s digital economy as we continue to move from a wired to a wireless world. We’re thrilled to welcome Ottawa — and Canada — to the future of the fast.” Rogers currently does not offer any 4G LTE smartphones but it is expected to launch devices from HTC and Samsung later this year, Toronto Sun reported. Rogers also said it will roll out its 4G LTE network to a total of 21 markets in 2012, starting with Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver this fall.

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  • Penny

    great news for people in major cities of Canada

  • Supermartin73

    In Ottawa, will report back. Oh wait, anyone have an extra 4g phone?

  • Anonymous

    Are they using the same LTE as VZW?

    When are they going to start capping it?

    • Anonymous

      yes. Same frequency and same technology. Once the agreement is signed, you can use your LTE phone across the border!

      • guest

        Same technology, different frequency.  Rogers is using AWS (band 4), not Verizon’s 700MHz (band 14 or something).

    • Anonymous

      All the Canadian carriers are going to use the same LTE as AT&T ( read: t-mo buy out) but ours will be the fastest in north America and all three of our major carriers are coming out with LTE and one of our start up ones is as well

      • Anonymous

        Goddamnit. In this magical dream that I had, all of North America was coated in delicious 4G goodness, and I could take my phone, regardless of provider, and find all the Gs I wanted, anywhere. Then I woke up and realized that the CEOs of the companies involved would probably rather screw their own pets than do something like that.

        So VZW is using the 700MHz, AT&T is using whatever T-Mobile is, and the Canadians are rocking the T-Mobile as well. Shame. I wonder what they’re going to use in Europe…

      • Bullet Tooth Tony

        Their band plans (Canada) call for 700 mhz in the future as well… they’re just still broadcasting analog TV, and their cutoff date of August 31, 2011 is misleading… it is not nation/territory-wide like the US analog cutoff.
         
        US will use AWS for LTE as well, probably much sooner if the FCC is smart and allows the T-Mobile buyout.  This network in Ottawa… it blows away VZW speeds since it can take advantage of AWS.  That includes Verizon using AWS as well… 700 for coverage, AWS for speed… otherwise, T-Mo will ruin US AWS with 3G… and AWS is the only real international band for LTE.

  • Anonymous

    Great news for a company that doesn’t have any 4G phones but when they do expect a massive increase on their over-priced data plans. $30 for 1GB is a joke, in 2008 they were giving away 6GB for the same price. LTE or no LTE, Rogers is the epitome of of a wireless crook. Brutal phones, brutal service.

    @Sqube:disqus  they aren’t using the same LTE as VZW. The capping will commence very very soon.

    • Anonymous

      1.5GB: $45

      3GB: $60

      6GB: $75

      9GB: $90

      Each additional GB after the 9 mark is $10

      Also verizon didn’t sell LTE phones right away

      • Anonymous

        $15 for an additional 500MB is a joke, and when comparing the new 6GB to the old promo price, it’s doubled. Because Verizon isn’t relevant in Canada (hence the Rogers post) I could careless.

        Why announce your carrying a new service when there’s no product to back it up or utilize it?

    • crusader

      I agreed,  Rogers along with bell and telus, they all are robbers. They are robbing Canadian for years. The God will punish these company one day, mark my word.  Let me tell My American Friends, these Carriers (Robelus) charge for Caller Id and Voicemail, can u believe that, on top of that they charge system access fee. Here is the most popular plan from Rogers= $40 250 minutes talking (no roll over, no nation wide and no same network calling). $14.35 extra for caller id,  voicemail and stupid fees. $25 for 500 mb data, yes only 500 mb. extra $ 5 for 250 text message. Now the worst part, if we buy phone at the discounted price, we are locked for 3 years contract, that means we cannot buy next 3 generations of iphone. Thank god, the god has send new carrier called wind mobile, now I pay only $45 unlimited canada wide talking and unlimited data (free caller id and voicemail and no stupid fees) and no contract and unlimted worldwide text message.

  • http://twitter.com/livingbasehead Shelton

    Colour me confused if they have the only 4G network why does telus have a 4G phone? oh wait I remember fastest network in canada right.. what did the courts say about that… Come on rogers stop lying. 

    • Anonymous

      The big 3 have been advertising hspa+ (3G+) as 4G, much like T-mobile in the states

    • guest

      since you’ve admitted you’re confused, which means you have no clue what is going on, how can you say that rogers is lying?  like fryguy18 said, bell and telus have been calling their hspa+ networks 4G.  If this was the case, then Rogers has had 4G for over 2 yrs now.

      • Anonymous

        Rogers just recently renamed their hspa+ network as 4G and are marketing LTE as 4G+

  • http://twitter.com/jesse_ps Jesse P.S

    Guess if Rogers LTE is really AWS, means I can finally use my Nexus One to its full potential.

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