LTE

Bell Reaffirms LTE Coming In 2011

In Bell’s Q1 2011 results posted this morning, the Canadian wireless company reaffirmed its position on wireless LTE that they will be launching in 2011: Building on its mobile broadband network leadership, Bell today also announced it would deploy next-generation LTE wireless in certain Canadian markets in 2011, with full national deployment contingent on the...

Rogers LTE Network to Launch This Year in Four Cities

Rogers has announced today their Long Term Evolution (LTE) network will be launching this year in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. Thereafter, the network will be launching in 21 other markets in 2012. The company has already been testing LTE trials over the past Fall. What is LTE? LTE is a next generation technology that...

No 4G LTE Chips For iPhone Until iPhone 6?

With the iPhone 5 expected this fall 2011, or maybe even in 2012 if rumors are to be believed, some users were hoping that Apple would take the extra time to feature 4G networking in the next iPhone. While 4G/LTE is not completely active in Canada yet, the majority of the big carriers are on...

Rogers Officially Announces LTE Network Deployment

Last Fall, Rogers announced LTE trials in Ottawa. Today, as part of their quarterly earnings call (which had profits drop), Rogers CEO Nadir Mohammed confirmed this to investors: "We’re committed to LTE. We’re committed to deploying it and it’s going to be a multi-year deployment." What is LTE? As defined by the Rogers Redboard: LTE...

Apple Job Posting Hints At LTE For iOS Devices

A recent job posting for Apple Shanghai suggests that the company is looking to get familiar with LTE cellular data technology. The job listing lists the integration of LTE in iOS devices as a “specific duty.” The job title is “iOS Cellular Protocol SW Engineer-SH/BJ”. Some of the details are below: Specific Duties - Implementation,...

Rogers Announces First LTE Technical Trial in Canada

The Rogers network contacted us yesterday about their ambitions to begin the first LTE technical trial in Canada, which will take place in Ottawa. Why Ottawa? That's because Rogers is teaming up with Ericsson Canada at their R&D facilities. We've had some discussion about LTE before. Here's some info from the Rogers Redboard: What is...

Rogers LTE/4G in 2010: All-in-One Voice/Data Plans?

Hello iPhoneinCanada.ca Readers! Hello everyone, first of all I’d like to introduce myself, my name is Josh Davies and my friends call me Shave. I’ve been visiting iPhoneinCanada.ca for a while now and was so impressed I begged Gary to let me write a few articles for him. I’ve been hacking my iPhone 3G since...