Xplornet Communications Inc. on Wednesday announced 25 Mbps service on fixed-wireless Internet service in rural parts of New Brunswick, making its service the fastest among comparable products in Canada. "New Brunswick can now claim the fastest rural fixed-wireless Internet speeds in Canada, but New Brunswick is just the start," Xplornet president Allison Lenehan said in a release Wednesday. "Xplornet's goal is to make 25 Mbps high-speed Internet available across Canada by 2017, and today's launch is an important step forward on that goal." Xplornet said the 25...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. said Friday it has expanded its High Speed Fusion Internet service for rural and remote communities to 25 additional locations. It said in a press release that this fixed-wireless, LTE-based service provides downloads speeds of up to 5 Mbps, twice as fast as the fixed-wireless Internet service it is meant to replace. High Speed Fusion costs $79.95 a month, the release said. SaskTel spokeswoman Michelle Englot said in an email the monthly data cap is 50 GB. SaskTel said the service would be brought to 17 more communities in the coming months....
The first phase of a $50-million wireless network in Montreal’s subway system is operational, the parties involved announced Friday. A joint press release from the Société de transport de Montréal...
Ericsson AB and International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. announced Monday that they are working together researching antennas for the future era of 5G wireless communications. The companies said in a press release that they...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s AWS-3 auction began on Thursday. The auction, which has a minimum price of a little more than $10 billion US and is scheduled for a single day, includes 1,614 licences in the 1695 to 1710 MHz, 1755 to 1780 MHz and 2155 to 2180 MHz bands. The 65 MHz...
GATINEAU, Que. — The CEO of Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron told the CRTC Friday that her company needs the regulator to lower the legislated rate for domestic roaming if it is to build a national...
Four years after Videotron flipped the switch on a new wireless network, the carrier is launching an LTE network that president and CEO Manon Brouillette says will help the company deliver TV content to its mobile customers. Videotron, owned by Quebecor Inc., was one of the companies that picked up set-aside spectrum in the 2008 AWS auction, and has been delivering HSPA service to the province of Quebec and the Ottawa region since September 2010. In a phone interview Wednesday, Brouillette said the new LTE network will cover 90 per cent of Quebec’s population as well as Ottawa....
Redline Communications Group Inc., a Toronto maker of wireless networks for projects in remote areas, said Tuesday it has reached a deal to purchase Santa Clara, Calif.-based PureWave Networks, which the company said will help it...
BCE Inc. said Tuesday that is has increased speeds on its LTE wireless network up to 45 per cent. It said in a press release that average download speeds have gone from between 12 and 25 Mbps to between 14 and 36 Mbps, adding...
Research firm Berg Insight says demand from automakers and the impending shutdown of older networks means the share of the global machine-to-machine communications (M2M) market using LTE and HSPA networks will more than double by...
Rural Internet provider Xplornet Communications Inc. said in a news release Monday that it will bring broadband to 100 per cent of Canada’s rural population by 2017. The company, which claims...
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. said Monday it has expanded its LTE network to Swan River, Man., which is about 500 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. MTS said in a press release the service will provide download speeds of up to...
Vancouver-based Roam Mobility Inc. has added LTE data to its roaming plans for Canadians travelling to the United States, the company announced on Wednesday. From July 7, customers who purchase one of the company’s plans...
After years of dragging their feet, carriers finally have “the will” to adopt the latest in wireless technology that will allow them to ditch their old networks once and for all, according to Nordicity analyst Stephan...
TORONTO — Wind Mobile CEO Anthony Lacavera said Tuesday that his company needs access to LTE spectrum, perhaps from unused space held by Quebecor Inc. or Shaw Communications Inc., if his company is to continue to be a viable...
Two of America’s largest wireless carriers have announced that they will be rolling out voice over LTE technology (VoLTE), with AT&T’s version of the service launching Friday and Verizon Communications Inc.’s launching “later this year,” according to press releases from both companies. AT&T said in the release that it will be introducing VoLTE in areas of Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and that the service will be available on the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini smartphone. Verizon did not say in its release where or exactly when the service would be...
Telus Corp. said Tuesday it has extended its LTE network to new communities in Ontario and New Brunswick. It said in separate news releases that customers in Bradford, Ont., and Bathurst, N.B., would now be able to enjoy data...
Telus Corp. has expanded its LTE mobile network into Port Hope and Cobourg, two side-by-side Ontario towns about 100 kilometres east of Toronto, the company said. In a release Thursday, Telus said its mobile customers in those...
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. on Monday said that it is now is offering its customers the opportunity to roam on LTE networks in most major urban areas in Canada and the United States, as well as...
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. subsidiary MTS Inc. expanded its next-generation LTE wireless network to Steinbach, Man., the company said. MTS said in a release Wednesday that Steinbach is the fifth of six communities in Manitoba...
Mobile providers in Canada and around the world are walking around with a proverbial “pebble” in their shoe and could save millions of dollars each month when advancements in LTE wireless technology inevitably allow them to take it out, technology experts and industry insiders say. Once touted as the future of mobile communications, voice over LTE—or VoLTE—has been largely “ignored” by network operators for much of the past four years as they focused on catering to consumers’ increasing demand for better and faster data services. As a result,...
Telus Corp. extended its 4G LTE network to Conception Bay, N.L. and Sydney, N.S., the company said in two releases Monday. On July 3, the company announced it also expanded the network to Strathroy, Ont., Fort Nelson, B.C., and...
Telus Corp. said its fourth-generation LTE wireless service is now available in Fredericton, N.B., and additional Ontario communities. In a release Monday, Telus said its LTE service now covers more than 70 per cent of...
SaskTel's fourth-generation LTE customers will now have the ability to roam nationally, the company said Thursday. In a release, SaskTel said its LTE network would be expanded to the communities of Estevan, Moose Jaw, North...
Telus Corp. turned on fourth-generation LTE mobile wireless services in Saint John, N.B., and two other Atlantic Canada cities, the company said. In a release Tuesday, Telus said its launch of LTE services in Saint John follows...
Rogers Communications Inc. could quickly expand the capacity of its fourth-generation LTE network in lucrative Western Canadian markets to offer faster data speeds for a larger number of subscribers...
Telus Corp. turned on its fourth-generation LTE network in more than a dozen areas of British Columbia and Quebec, the company said last week. In a series of releases, Telus said it had activated its LTE networks in the B.C. communities of Strathmore, Drayton Valley, Surrey, Richmond, North Delta,...
Canada’s new entrant carriers are not likely to carry Apple Inc.’s popular iPhone smartphone before 2014 after their network configurations were shut out of Apple’s newly released...
Rogers Communications Inc. will expand its fourth-generation LTE service to 10 new cities by Oct. 1, the company said on its RedBoard blog Wednesday. Rogers said it will bring LTE to the cities of Kingston, Oakville, Burlington,...
SaskTel is teaming up with Huawei Technologies Co. to trial a fourth-generation LTE fixed wireless network in Saskatchewan, the companies said Monday. In a release, SaskTel said the trial will use Huawei “solutions and equipment” to roll out 100 Mbps, fixed Internet services in at least three rural communities across the province starting in December. It did not say which communities would be included in the trial, which will run through August 2013. In the release, SaskTel said the trial will include “the provisioning of equipment to a local telephone service, in order to...
Industry Canada should allow regional wireless carriers operating in different parts of the country to share network infrastructure and bid in next year's 700 MHz auction...