During Rogers’ earning call this morning, CTO Bob Berner talked about Rogers’ multi-year commitment to building an extensive, Canada-wide LTE (Long Term Evolution) network. LTE is the name of the technology that sits behind the 4G moniker that is becoming more pervasive throughout the developed world. Besides announcing a localized trial in Ottawa/Kanata last October, [...]

This has been long-awaited. When the HTC Desire Z was released late last year by Bell, tons of people wanted to know when Canada would get a taste of its larger, skinnier, more powerful older brother, the Desire HD. At 4.3″, the screen is almost big enough to be considered tablet-sized. The 2nd-gen 1Ghz Snapdragon [...]

There is nothing I like to talk about more than over-the-top cell phones. Said devices primarily made for that frivolous spender all of us know personally; the one who has money to burn and doesn’t mind showing it. What you see above falls perfectly into that category — despite its modest and comparatively affordable price tag. [...]

Now here’s an effective marketing strategy! Mobilicity announced today that they are offering free calling to China, Hong Kong and Singapore for the entire Lunar New Year. This year, it will take place from February 2nd until the 4th. “We want to give everyone an opportunity to experience unlimited Mobilicity calling to family and friends [...]

At an informal question and answer session with Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin tonight in Toronto, the company announced that they will be sweetening their already-awesome Unlimited plans as of January 20th. Their $35 plan, which includes unlimited unlimited local and province-wide calling, unlimited national texting and voicemail, will add free Canadian long distance (previously $10) [...]

The Canadian cellphone market is a strange one. Everyone says there is an oligopoly, where only three companies control the industry, and this is largely true. They say that prices are exorbitantly high and that three-year contracts are indicative of an industry without true regulation. All of these positions have been posited many times before, [...]

Globalive’s WIND Mobile announced the other day that they have continued to work on their network across Canadian cities, expanding and improving it. The latest developments in their network are the beginning of service in the Whistler, British Columbia area - “just in time for many Canadians’ holiday ski trips” and expansion and improvement in Toronto and the [...]

It has been almost 2 months since the dummies first arrived at Rogers, but the day has finally arrived. Rogers is set to launch HP’s Palm Pre 2 on Canadian soil today. Will it do well in a market heavily dominated by the standout favorites? Only time will tell. But launching just in time for [...]

If this isn’t a sign that the holiday season has officially begun, I don’t know what is. Effective tomorrow December 18th, 2010 through to Friday December 31st, 2010, Rogers will waive the notorious $35 fee on all new 3 year activations to help drive holiday sales even more. They state that this is a no-holds [...]

Today marks one year since Globalive’s WIND Mobile launched cell phone service in their first market, Toronto. WIND quickly followed that initial launch with a Calgary launch 2 days later and now they have their own AWS 3G plus network in 6 markets (Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver). When they launched their service [...]