Bell has announced its existing LTE network is set to expand tomorrow to hit seven more Canadian cities: Montréal, Québec City, Ottawa, London, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. These cities will join the existing LTE centres of the Greater Toronto Area, Halifax, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Belleville and Yellowknife. LTE speeds mean customers can get up to...
Telus has announced their anticipated Long Term Evolution (LTE) network will go live on Friday, February 10th in 14 Canadian cities. These include: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, Kitchener, Waterloo, Hamilton, Guelph, Belleville, Ottawa, Montreal, Québec City, Halifax and Yellowknife. By the end of 2012, their LTE network plans to reach...
Today is Bell's Let's Talk Day, an initiative to raise awareness and discussion about the lingering stigma that surrounds mental health and illness. Olympian Clara Hughes is the spokesperson for the campaign: "Fighting stigma is critical to advancing Canadian mental health, and it's the first pillar in the Bell Let's Talk mental health initiative," said...
Telus made two official announcements today: Optik TV for the Xbox 360 that allows users to control their TV using their Kinect, and the Telus Optik TV iOS app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The Optic TV 'On the Go' iOS app allows existing Telus customers in BC and Alberta watch on demand...
Rogers has officially announced the launch of its new Rogers One Number service, to allow customers to make free calls from their computers using their their existing number. This includes long distance to any Canadian number: Introducing Rogers One Number. This new service exclusively from Rogers lets you talk, text and send picture messages, and video chat with...
The Globe and Mail has added further fuel to rumours of the existence of an 'iTV' (as first noted by MacRumors), as sources have revealed Apple has their eyes set on a partnership with Rogers and Bell, with another separate source noting a demo product already exists within their labs: ...sources say Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has...
OpenMedia.ca previously launched their 'Stop the Squeeze' campaign back in January. A recent email blast to its supporters has the non-profit upping the ante against the 'Big 3' carriers in Canada. Today they specifically target a campaign by Rogers to 'muzzle' your voice: Rogers recently bought and paid for a trumped-up study2 that wrongly implies Canadians (you)...
As noted on the Rogers Redboard, new 'Ultimate Unlimited' Family Plans are set to be released tomorrow. Essentially these plans allow two lines to share the same bill, in this case for families or couples or whatever the situation may be: The Ultimate Unlimited Family plan starts at $95.94 per month for two lines including...
Koodo Mobile has just revised their Canada-wide calling packages to include Voicemail and Call Display facilities with an increment of $5/month for each price plan (via Mobilesyrup). The change has already gone live starting from February 3rd, 2012 and seems to be a pretty reasonable move by the company since Call Display and Voicemail would otherwise...
Rogers has announced further expansion of its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network in cities around Montreal (Laval, Terrebonne, Brossard, Longueuil and Vaudreuil) and also plans to expand to 25 more cities this year, and ultimately reaching more than 20 million Canadians by the end of the year. The Rogers LTE network launched last July in...
This past week, Bell quietly launched their new Mobile TV app in the iTunes App Store. Bell Mobile TV is currently one of the featured apps if you browse the store from your iPhone or iPod touch so we thought we'd take a closer look at exactly what the telecom giant has to offer. Bell...
Looks like another promo has emerged from Rogers to encourage customers to stay. Last December we reported on a promo where users called into Rogers and received a one month credit to their account. Now, it looks like a similar promo is back in an attempt to retain customers and to prevent them from 'porting...
