October 26th, 2008Videotron launches their wireless network
With full page ads in this weekend’s papers and a press conference earlier this week, Videotron (Quebecor) has announced their new Wireless network to be built on the Spectrum they purchased earlier this year. It’s not exactly a surprise that they will be putting the spectrum to use, but it is good to hear it announced officially (of the new entrants, only Videotron and Globalive have announced rollout plans so far). The network will be HSPA like everybody else (not waiting for LTE) and these HSPA signals should start wiggling their way across Quebecor’s airwaves by mid 2010. The bad news (or not good yet news) for Ontarians is that Videotron has said anything yet about expanding beyond Quebec (though they do hold a bunch of spectrum in southern and eastern Ontario.
Videotron already has about 55k cellphone subscribers in Quebec under an MNVO arrangement with Rogers which they will be migrating over to the new network.
Link: Quebecor launching new cellphone network
