| DAVE Wireless Signs Cell Site Licensing Deal with Bell Mobility
23/09/2009
Rogers Wireless has started training its employees to use the forthcoming BlackBerry Curve 8520 device, according to an internal email leaked on CrackBerry.com.“The National Sales & Service Training team is very excited to announce the launch of the new BlackBerry 8520 Smartphone E-Learning training program now available on Rogers FastTrack,” the company wrote in a message to... |
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| Rogers Wireless Training Employees to Use BlackBerry Curve 8520
21/09/2009
Julius Genachowski, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, joined an ongoing debate over net neutrality today, announcing his support for preventing ISP interference with internet traffic.“It is essential that the Internet remain open,” Genachowski said in a televised speech. “If we wait too long to preserve a free and open Internet, it will be too... |
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| Bell Aliant Introduces Fiber-Optic TV and Internet Service in Fredericton, NB
18/09/2009
Canadian cell phone operator, Bell Mobility, has started offering the Samsung Reclaim, an environmentally-friendly smartphone first released in the U.S. last month.The Reclaim is made primarily from recycled materials and comes with an energy-efficient charger. It has all the same features we’ve come to expect from a consumer smartphone, including a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 2-megapixel... |
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| Bell Mobility Brings Samsung Reclaim to Canadian Market
17/09/2009
Edward Rogers III, son of the late Canadian media mogul Ted Rogers, has been appointed deputy chairman of Rogers Communications as part of a corporate reorganization announced yesterday.Up until now, Rogers (aged 39) has been in charge of the company’s cable TV division, a role which he will relinquish as that business is merged into Rogers Wireless. As deputy chairman, he will be in charge... |
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| Telus Ranked ‘Greenest’ Canadian Carrier, but Trails U.S. Counterparts
16/09/2009
Rogers Wireless has started distributing promotional material for the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 device, according to a recent report on BlackBerryCool.com.A new Rogers flier boasts that the Curve 8520 will feature an “optical trackpad for easy navigation, external media keys, [and] support TalkSpot for unlimited Canada-wide calling.”Rogers describes TalkSpot as “a great new... |
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| Verizon Wireless Deal Fuels Surge in Bridgewater Stock
15/09/2009
Manitoba’s incumbent telecom carrier, MTS, announced yesterday that it had obtained regulatory approval for a plan to build a shared mobile broadband network with larger rival, Rogers Wireless.MTS and Rogers will share the cost of the new network, which will offer UMTS/HSPA mobile data service to cell phone users in Manitoba. Under the terms of the deal, Rogers will also sign a wholesaling... |
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| MTS and Rogers Get Regulatory Approval for Shared 3G Wireless Network
14/09/2009
Leading cell phone provider, Rogers Wireless, has launched an upgraded version of its 3G mobile broadband network in five Canadian cities.The new ‘HSPA+’ network allows for download speeds of up to 21.6-Mbps, which compares to 7.2-Mbps on Rogers’ existing HSPA service. This gives Rogers Wireless the fastest mobile broadband network in North America, beating out Sprint’s 4G... |
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| Rogers Wireless Launches 21-Mbps Mobile Broadband Network
09/09/2009
Canada’s leading cell phone carrier, Rogers Wireless, says it will release at least one Android-based Motorola smartphone next year, in hopes of diversifying its selection of advanced mobile handsets.Rogers plans to launch “a lot more smartphones,” according to company president, Rob Bruce, noting that “there will be a Motorola Android device in our portfolio in... |
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| Rogers Wireless to Offer Android-Based Motorola Smartphone(s)
06/09/2009
The UK’s two leading wireless operators, O2 and Vodafone, have reportedly made competing £3.5 billion offers for smaller rival, T-Mobile UK.T-Mobile was put up for sale by Deutsche Telekom, after the German telecom giant was forced to make a £1.6 billion write-down on its wireless operations earlier this year. The £3.5 billion conditional offers are in line with a recent appraisal by... |
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| O2 and Vodafone Make Competing Offers for T-Mobile UK
04/09/2009
In a long-awaited move, AT&T has announced plans to offer multimedia messaging service (MMS) for the Apple iPhone device.A software update enabling MMS will be available to iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users beginning on September 25.AT&T cited an exponential increase in wireless traffic as the reason for the long delay in launching MMS.“The unique capabilities and high usage of the... |
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