Comments on: Waiting for the Bell/Telus HSPA announcement

By: dabodabo

dabodabo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:38:22 +0000

thanks!

By: GaryB

GaryB — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:45:34 +0000

HSPA officially announced this morning by TELUS, Oct 10/08

By: Tom W

Tom W — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:09:33 +0000

Everyone's on this "switch to HSPA" bandwagon it seems except me and here's why:

- Bell's recently spent over 350 Million expanding their EVDO footprint.
- CDMA carriers are still having success in some parts of the world. Sprint although not "sexy" is having a great time selling the Samsung instinct in the US. (Bell recently launched this same handset. Not a small investment, when you think about $500 or more per unit cost from Samsung.
- The next logical evolution is a 4G LTE or other type of network.
- The cost of building out a new national network is huge and as you've mentioned above they'd still have to support the 10 million handsets that are on the old network for a period of at least 3 years.

The money that it would take to make the switch is the real indicator here. Are the new owners of Bell willing/able to spend this kind of money and hope for a quick recovery? I don't think so.

By: mainertoo

mainertoo — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:01:07 +0000

I think you are spot on there sebastien. It has amazed me that an official sponsor of the Olympics would bend over and let Rogers entertain the world on GSM roaming all by their lonesome. Granted, they still might with the 2G service but I agree that Bell/Telus will be scrambling to sign roaming agreements in a hurry.

By: sebastien

sebastien — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:23:48 +0000

My theory is that Bell/Telus will build out the Vancouver/Whistler area in time for the Olympics, scramble to sign roaming agreements with offshore carriers, and I further predict that by 2010, nobody will own a 2G phone anymore ;-)