Bell signs HSPA roaming agreement with AT&T
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Aug 6th 2009 2:58PM
posted Aug 6th 2009 2:58PM
Networks in the GSMA's technology path have an easier time roaming around the world (whether pricing is easy on the wallet is another story altogether) -- but naturally, you've got to have the roaming agreements in place to make the globetrotting a reality. Up in Canada, Bell's wasting now time getting those deals lined up so that customers are good to go the moment it flips the switch and lights up its brand-spanking-new HSPA network as it makes the transition from CDMA; specifically, it's announced during its second quarter earnings call that it has hooked up with AT&T for a symbiotic relationship that'll let Bell customers roam on AT&T's network and vice versa. Interestingly, the agreement allows Bell's phones to roam both on HSPA and legacy GSM in the States while AT&T customers will be strictly HSPA when they're on Bell, reinforcing two things: one, Bell's likely lined up to be North America's first commercial UMTS network without legacy compatibility, and two, Bell's phones -- at least some of them -- will rock GSM / EDGE for use abroad (we should certainly hope so).[Via MobileSyrup]
Do they even have a GSM network? Of course AT&T customers can't roam on a GSM network that doesn't exist.
That's what I was wondering... AT&T already GSM roams on Rogers, so even if Bell does have a GSM network, the Bell roaming really isn't that necessary.
Either Engadget hasn't reported about it or people haven't heard about it. Bell is transitioning to HSDPA, they have test towers up in all the major cities in Canada
http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1556634
Yeah guys didn't you know that?!!!
AT&T is going to own the world one day.
How reliable is this information. I had just talked to 2 different Bell reps on the phone and they said they have not heard of anything like this yet? Is this official and in the works of happening or just a rumour? I've seen this news on a number of other links too.