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Q&A with Telus on 4G

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Last week, Telus announced the arrival of its Dual Cell network, which could bring theoretical speeds of up to 42Mbps to their network, which doubles the HSPA+ technology being used today. The usage of the term 4G elsewhere has been met with some confusion, but with it getting wide use in the US for competing technologies, it’s not surprising that we’re seeing it happen here in Canada as well.

To get some clarification on the use of 4G, and what plans they have for LTE, we fired off some questions to Telus, and present the response below…

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Rogers testing LTE wireless in Ottawa

Doug Groves , , , , , 1 Comment

Rogers has started running a ‘comprehensive’ trial of it’s LTE wireless network in the nations capital, which could bring download speeds of up to 150 Mbps to mobile devices.  LTE is a 4G technology meant to replace existing 3G networks.  Both LTE and WiMax, which around for a quite some time now, are just starting to see adoption as standards.  At one point there was speculation that LTE would be in Vancouver by the 2010 Olympics, but that never really panned out.

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