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Get ready Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver: LTE is coming this year
April 27th, 2011 a 11:11am
We’re excited to announce that Rogers will launch our Long Term Evolution (LTE) network this year in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver. And it gets better – we also plan to deploy LTE in an additional 21 markets by the end of 2012. What this means is that Rogers customers will be among the first in the world to experience LTE.
Live, work and play better with LTE
LTE is the gold standard of wireless technology and the future of mobile experience. Rogers LTE will fundamentally change our concept of entertainment, communications and productivity, delivering a true high-speed Internet experience through handsets, tablets and Rocket Sticks:
- Stream movies instantly on a tablet with virtually no delays or buffering
- Experience a revolution in wireless multiplayer real-time online gaming
- Conduct wireless group video conferences in real-time, with virtually no lag time
- Access data-intensive business applications while on the go
Get updates and enter to win at iwantmyLTE.ca
To us, LTE is all about being more connected, that’s why we created IwantmyLTE.ca, a website where you can learn about Rogers LTE network and share your excitement for LTE. Starting today, you can log on to the site and let us know if you’re excited to get LTE in your city.
And if you’re a Rogers customer you can enter to win a trip to Toronto in July for an exclusive “Future of Fast” experience, including passes to the 2011 Honda Toronto Indy and the once-in-a-lifetime chance to get behind the wheel of a professional race car and experience fast for yourself!
Are you ready for Rogers LTE? If you are, let us know where you would like to experience the Future of Fast at IwantmyLTE.ca.
UPDATE (April 29, 2011 3:51 pm): At the Annual General Meeting on April 27, Nadir Mohamed, President and CEO of Rogers Communications said that Rogers customers will be among the first in the world to experience LTE. Check out the full video of his announcement from the meeting below:
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YES!
Hopefully Rogers won’t offer obscene pricing for data
Yes, I can’t wait to pay double what it would cost in the states.
I assume with this addition your still going to limit users to 1-5gb of data? So this way we can go over the limit faster?
This is great, but I fear will once again be a case of being too expensive to actually use. Sure I can stream a movie with ‘no delay, no buffering’, but it will cost me multiple times the cost of buying the blu-ray (and cost me every time I watch it). We need lower cost data (and higher usage caps) to be able to use all these things you keep teasing us with.
Awesome. Just awesome. Great work Rogers. Super excited, can’t wait :)
I am pumped that LTE is coming to Canada sooner than I thought – some of the LTE handsets available in the US are pretty cool, and there will be newer ones that will be even better, not to mention Tablets…
HOWEVER the elephant in the room is data caps. At LTE speeds, doing all the cool things mentioned above, like gaming, video conferencing & watching movies the current average 1GB data plans are wholly inadequate.
I would hope that along with the launch of LTE that there will be new data plans tailored specifically to take advantage of all that LTE has to offer
Everyone – too early to discuss pricing. We’ll talk more about price and value of LTE when we announce our first LTE ready devices.
Yes, but could you please, oh please oh please, think ahead, and make this competitive and actually innovative. As people have said, whats the point in this when you’ll chew through a data package in no time.
Um, no, it’s not too early. When I have to carefully count every byte of data I use as is to avoid disgusting charges for going over my limit, faster speeds just seem like a waste of effort.
150Mbps downloads!!! Oh wait, and probably 6 gig caps… never mind…
I’m pretty psyched about LTE, and to be fair, when the faster broadband plans came out Rogers did expand the amount of included data bandwidth, so I kinda hope (and almost expect) the same thing here.
Will Rogers have new LTE capable phones ready for the new network?
Hi Jerry – over time LTE will power a number of our devices (i.e. handsets, tablets, Rocket Sticks, etc) We will share more info about the first devices closer to launch.
Will Rogers be capping upload speeds of Android devices like AT&T and Bell?
Look at your coverage maps. LTE is nice, and wouldnt it be great if everyone lived in the four major Canadian cities. But for those of us not in those areas we are mostly stuck with EDGE or GPRS (I wish I were kidding). Bring 3G (at the very least) to All of Nova Scotia, especially Cape Breton. Otherwise this announcement rings hollow.
I agree, we need some 3G over here on the island.
Are any existing Rogers smartphones LTE-capable via firmware upgrades or is it a different technology altogether and we need to upgrade the phone itself to take advantage of the new 4G LTE network?
Alex – you’ll need new hardware, there’s a separate LTE radio inside the device
There’s no point to higher speeds in Canada when we pay such a price per Mb of data we transfer. I just downgraded to a 50% lower speed service than I had previous, but one that has a higher cap because in the end, that provides vastly more functionality for me. LTE has tremendous promise technically but it is a non-starter for me unless Rogers changes their pricing model. All the things that it enables wrt access to the cloud are useless at Canadian pricing levels.
Useless without pricing or limits. This kind of service with a 6 gig cap would be absolutely pointless.
You are all missing the point. There will be new data caps, twice the GB for twice the price. And it will be competitve since the CRTC protects these companies from true competition. Does anybody really care if we make a rich American richer as oppsed to making a rich Canadian richer? We just want our products and to be able to watch what we want, where we want, and on whichever of our devices we want.
Manitoba just got half-assed 3G a month ago, it would be nice if you updated to LTE sooner rather than 10 years from now like you will.
I’ll be excited until I see the ridiculous price you sell it for!! Here’s what I’d be ready to pay for and even recruit my whole neighborhood to subscribe with Rogers… 100$ or less for 50GB to Unlimited Data Usage.
Believe me with the number of clients you will get, you will have tons of money!! So you’ll be happy having your money, and your consumers will be happy (*for once)…
The future of fast is great and all, but whats the future of data consumption on the Rogers network? Telus is offering “up to” 42Mbit 3G+, but still has a maximum data plan of 5GB, that means you’d blow through your months worth of data in about 15.8mins. Rogers LTE in a 2×2 Antennae configuration should be capable of 172.8Mbit/sec. Considering Roger’s highest data plan is only 6GB that means you could potentially eat up your bandwidth in -wait for it- 4.63 minutes. (all figures assume that you’d have a source that’s able to transmit at those speeds)
Without talking about specific prices and plans, Is Rogers looking at increasing the data caps on wireless plans?
Pat – can’t comment on LTE data services at this time or what wireless plans will look like.
This would be good if you “actually” deployed it accross the “entire” network. Looking at 3G, Rogers chooses “NOT” to compete with the other networks in terms of coverage. When the other networks get LTE then you will once again be a network with pathetic and uncompetitive coverage.
Your logic suggests that competitors will launch with full LTE coverage on their network.
When Bell and Telus launch their LTE, Rogers will:
A) Already have launched several months to a year previously;
B) Have expanded the LTE to other markets;
C) Actually worked out bugs that Bell and Telus will have to work on ontop of launching later;
D) Likely be launching with a coverage map that will likely be, at best, on par with Rogers’ LTE coverage at that time.
The people asking for better data packages is understandable and reasonable, but you’re asking a business to launch a massive network upgrade nationwide in all markets simultaneously…you can’t have the sky man.