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Rogers brings Acer Liquid e, Android 2.1 to Canada

February 22, 2010 Doug Groves Acer, Acer Liquid, Android, Android 2.1, Rogers0 comment

Rogers bringing the Android 2.1 packing Acer Liquid e is an interesting development on a couple of fronts. It’s the first time a North American carrier to bring an Acer smart phone to market. It’s also the first official phone to be running 2.1 Android in Canada, although Telus’ recently released Milestone is upgradeable from 2.0. “Rogers is very excited to be partnering with a highly respected global brand like Acer to bring the Acer Liquid e to Canadians consumers,” said John Boynton, Executive Vice-President, Marketing, Rogers. “By exclusively launching,…

Wind Mobile Toronto Launch Coverage, continued…

December 29, 2009December 29, 2009 drsquid Bell, Blackberry, cellphone, event, HTC, Huawei, launch, Mobile, Rogers, Samsung, Telus, Toronto, Wind Mobile9 Comments

Our continued coverage of the December 16th Wind Mobile launch in Toronto…in Part 2 Ken Campbell, CEO, and Chris Robbins, Chief Customer Officer, talk in more detail about Wind, the phones, and their initial plan offerings. Part 3 includes rest of the press conference, and their first customer getting his phone. Parts 4 & 5 conclude the coverage, with a Q&A session, some shots of their phones, their second customer, and a short interview with Chris from Wind, where he mentions Wind’s current lack of support for enterprise mail on…

Rogers pulls a Telus and sues Bell over network claims

December 2, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, HSPA, legal, Rogers, Telus, Wireless0 comment

Rogers Wireless division must be feeling pretty down lately. With the launch of the new Bell/Telus HSPA network, big Red lost exclusivity of the iPhone. Telus also managed to get a court ruling preventing Rogers from advertising themselves as the “most reliable network”. Now, in what can only be seen as a fit of jealous rage case of turnabout is fair play, Rogers has launched a lawsuit to prevent Bell from saying essentially the same thing. Bell’s latest ads for the new network claim that it’s “the largest, fastest, and…

“Rogers On Demand Online” – Hulu North or just another VOD?

November 24, 2009November 24, 2009 Doug Groves Hulu, Rogers, VOD0 comment

We’ve talked about the lack of a Hulu-type service in Canada on a number of occasions. In the US, Hulu is a free service that allows users to watch full TV episodes and movies from a number of content providers in an on-demand service on their computers, either via a web browser or dedicated client. The service does contain advertising, but is less intrusive than watching over the air or cable broadcasts. Rogers announced that they have partnered with 15 network content providers to allow streaming of content from 19…

Jim Shaw is mad as Hell, and he’s not gonna take it anymore. (ish.)

November 20, 2009November 22, 2009 Danny X CRTC, Fee for Carriage, Rogers, Shaw1 Comment

The world needs more Jim Shaws. The outspoken CEO of Shaw Communications was quoted in Marketing Magazine today as being “sick of the debate” regarding fee for carriage. “It is time to stop this debate and move forward,” he said. Shaw not only opposes the concept of Fee for Carriage, but also calls the CRTC out on its seeming inability to stick to its guns. “I thought you guys made the decision and you should stick to it,” said Shaw of the CRTC’s earlier decisions to oppose fee for carriage….

Bell also magically makes the SAF dissappear

November 17, 2009November 18, 2009 drsquid Bell, Rogers, SAF, Telus, Wind Mobile, Wireless0 comment

With the consumer backlash against made up wireless fees growing, Bell is rumoured to be to joining Rogers and Telus, and getting rid of the hated $6.95 ‘System Access Fee’. According to an internal document, leaked on The Mobile Ninjas here, on Nov 20th Bell “will no longer be charging” the SAF Effective November 20th, 2009 Bell Mobility will be launching new pricing for all existing post-paid plans & will no longer be charging the $6.95 system access fee. Review the job aid for more details. However just like Telus…

Episode 020 – Mobile Madness

November 15, 2009November 16, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, droid, HD2, HSPA, HTC, HTC HD2, iPhone, milestone, Motorola, Motorola Milestone, Rogers, Telus16 Comments

After taking a hiatus, which allowed us to catch up with our Fan Expo footage, we’re back on a regular schedule. Given the big news in the mobile phone space over the past couple of weeks, we talk about the new Bell / Telus HSPA+ network, and some of the new phones they’ve introduced (or soon will be) such as the Motorola Droid/Milestone, the HTC HD2, the end of Rogers iPhone exclusivity and much more. If you’ve been contemplating switching, or getting a new smartphone, then this is the episode…

Telus HSPA network off to rocky start, iPhone and HTC Hero in tow

November 10, 2009November 10, 2009 drsquid Bell, Hero, HSPA, HTC, iPhone, Rogers, Telus2 Comments

A day after Bell’s Nov 4th launch of their new HSPA network Telus’ went live. Like Bell, Telus’ flagship handset is the iPhone, but unlike Bell the remaining handset selection is a lot slimmer at the moment, lacking any lower end phones. Telus is exclusively selling the HTC Hero, an Android 1.5 phone, and the LG BL40 ‘New’ Chocolate, and with Bell they have the Blackberry Bold 9700 and like Rogers the Nokia E71 qwerty. Hopefully this line up will expand, and there are already unconfirmed rumours that the Samsung…

It’s Rogers vs Rogers and Bell vs Bell at the CRTC

October 16, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, canada, CRTC, Rogers0 comment

Sometimes when you start researching and writing, it’ll take you to unexpected places. Those places could be far off lands only tangentially related to your initial interest (thanks to Wikipedia), or keep you focused on the matter at hand, while consolidating your position. The latter is true in the case of this article, which I thought was going to be just a bit of information on the CRTC Fee For Carriage (FFC) issue, which a couple of jabs at the ridiculous PSAs both sides are showing. It became something different……

Bell and Telus To Launch iPhone In November

October 5, 2009October 7, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, iPhone, Rogers, rumour, Telus10 Comments

As long as quasi-substantiated rumours are to be believed, anyways. The iPhone will be available from Bell and Telus in November, breaking a year plus exclusive deal with Rogers. November also marks the nation wide launch of the joint HSPA network from Bell and Telus, well ahead of the original schedule, which suggested it would be available around the time of the Olympics, and probably starting in Vancouver so the two telecom companies could take advantage of international roaming fees racked up by visitors from around the world. It’s little…

Cellular Code of Conduct

September 3, 2009September 3, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, CWTA, Rogers, Telus4 Comments

On Tuesday the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) released a new ‘code of conduct’ that will theoretically govern how wireless carriers will behave vis a vis their subscribers, which number over 23 million in Canada. On the face of it, the code of conduct sounds good. Part of the 3 page document includes allowing customers out of their contracts if, at any point, the carrier has made changes to said contract. I’m sure most long time mobile users are used to such shenanigans, where fees start creeping up, or there’s…

Rogers becomes Speed Junkie with HSPA+

July 28, 2009July 28, 2009 Doug Groves Rogers3 Comments

Rogers wireless division has announced the launch of their HSPA+ network, which will supply speeds of up to a whopping 21 Mbps. The roll out begins in Greater Toronto in August, and will continue to other cities over the upcoming months. This is hot on the heels of their recent announcement of a 50 Mbps home internet connection using DOCSIS 3.0 technology. “With the exponential growth of smartphones, application stores, mobile Internet sticks and embedded laptops and netbooks, Canadians are embracing wireless data and services like never before,” said Rob…