Comments on: Spectrum Auction: How the Canadian Wireless industry has changed forever

By: inheaven

inheaven — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:10:00 +0000

Look? is dead!

By: inheaven

inheaven — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:10:00 +0000

Look? is dead!

By: WirelessKing

WirelessKing — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:49:23 +0000

Word on the street is that the reasonTELUS is going HSPA rather than making the jump straight to LTE is because of the roaming revenues that they stand to gain form the influx of travellers that will be stopping by into BC during the 2010 Winter games. Rumour has it that the roaming revenues from the 2010 games will pay for the full HSPA deployment along with covering a good chunk for their LTE deployment…you heard it here first…Entwhistle is nothing but business…..

By: oggyswain

oggyswain — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:30:27 +0000

What about Look Communications? They have prime Spectrum in the 2500 Mhz area. I never hear of them when one talks about the up and commers. Any info on them as a threat to the big 3.

By: Vishal Malik

Vishal Malik — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:31:10 +0000

What is the URL of the website this article claims Dave Wireless put up?

Thanks.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:21:51 +0000

Great article and I couldn't have imagined Telus and Bell would build a UMTS 3G network alongside their CDMA Ev-Do and considering their more than comfortable position in this market. Thought they'd rather wait until LTE is ready for implementation while still milking their existing infrastructure and position on the market in Canada.

I have one question about Videotron setting up a 3G network. Do they have enough spectrum in the 850/1900/2100MHz bands? I thought they had auctioned for the 1700/2100MHz band.

The reason is 1700/2100MHz WCDMA compatible handsets are all but common on the market and I am wondering weither manufacturers will be willing to market quad-band WCDMA compatible handsets any time soon as the rest of the World is mostly using 850/1900/2100MHz compatible handsets.

I would applaude Telus and Bell setting up UMTS networks and hope the NKOTWB will all go UMTS but until every costumer is allowed to keep/bring its own handset while changing operators I don't see real competition any time soon.

By: Robert a.k.a. Roger Darrencope

Robert a.k.a. Roger Darrencope — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:30:25 +0000

Nice insight! Rogers/fido has a GSM monopoly. I still don't know how the fido purchase was allowed. Rogers has the iphone AND probably the first android phones. They will initially take over the smart phone market, no problem. But in the long run, i don't see how their ARPU and market share won't take a hit from GSM telus, GSM bell, and the newbies.

BTW, Nice alias.

By: branden

branden — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:25:34 +0000

insightful article Ted. i think you're right…a Telus move to GSM all but assures them a #2 position in this market for a long time.

“Cope-Whistle” – :-) genius.

By: sid

sid — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:53:49 +0000

you might want to watch this about shaw

http://watch.bnn.ca/#clip68318