Means very little when their 3g coverage is completely minute compared to other carriers, and has been growing pretty slowly, having 3.5g first dosnt really mean much when it will take far too long to reach most of the canadian population.
Consider how huge Canada is, I think Rogers already did its best. At least it is (at the moment) better than Telus and Bell.
I personally am using Rogers 3G. At where I am, sometimes it "feels" like it is faster than using WiFi. So as long as Rogers keeps up building and expanding its network, we might see 4G in the future like in Japan.
Scazza I am no Rogers Wireless cheerleader - far from it in fact - but just looking at their coverage maps available on their website I have to say your comments are not accurate As of 2006 17% of the Canadian population lived in the Greater Toronto Area which doesn't include Hamilton, Niagara, St Catherines, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, and all the other smaller cities in the vicinity of Toronto covered by the same 3.5g signal. In fact, most of the Windsor-Quebec City Corridor (the population corridor mostly along the paths of Highway 401 in Ontario and Autoroute 20 in Quebec) is covered by Rogers' 3G signal according to the Rogers maps and over 1/2 of the Canadian population lives along that corridor. So ya, actually they are providing coverage 3G and otherwise to most of Canada's population just by covering those areas alone, never mind Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, and Halifax amongst others. It just happens to be that the majority of Canada is relatively empty of human inhabitants.
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Means very little when their 3g coverage is completely minute compared to other carriers, and has been growing pretty slowly, having 3.5g first dosnt really mean much when it will take far too long to reach most of the canadian population.
Consider how huge Canada is, I think Rogers already did its best. At least it is (at the moment) better than Telus and Bell.
I personally am using Rogers 3G. At where I am, sometimes it "feels" like it is faster than using WiFi.
So as long as Rogers keeps up building and expanding its network, we might see 4G in the future like in Japan.
Scazza
I am no Rogers Wireless cheerleader - far from it in fact - but just looking at their coverage maps available on their website I have to say your comments are not accurate
As of 2006 17% of the Canadian population lived in the Greater Toronto Area which doesn't include Hamilton, Niagara, St Catherines, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, and all the other smaller cities in the vicinity of Toronto covered by the same 3.5g signal.
In fact, most of the Windsor-Quebec City Corridor (the population corridor mostly along the paths of Highway 401 in Ontario and Autoroute 20 in Quebec) is covered by Rogers' 3G signal according to the Rogers maps and over 1/2 of the Canadian population lives along that corridor.
So ya, actually they are providing coverage 3G and otherwise to most of Canada's population just by covering those areas alone, never mind Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, and Halifax amongst others. It just happens to be that the majority of Canada is relatively empty of human inhabitants.