Rogers offers fastest mobile data service in Western Hemisphere

EDGE network, take a back seat. Rogers Wireless has announced that customers in Moncton and Halifax will now receive the company’s 3G high-speed wireless network. These cities will see wireless data speeds up to 7.2 Mbps, which — and I quote the press release — makes “mobile download speeds the fastest in the country and in the top 5% worldwide.” It seems to me that there should be somewhere else in the Americas that can see mobile download speeds of 7.2 Mbps. Any takers? Anyone?

“This major expansion reinforces Rogers as Canada’s fastest and most advanced wireless network from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast,” said
Rob Bruce, President, Rogers Wireless. “It also confirms Rogers as the first in the Western Hemisphere and one of the leading carriers in the world to take their customers to the next level with the blazingly fast speeds of cutting-edge 3.5 G technology.”

With their 3G network, Rogers is putting an emphasis on video services. They’re pushing their wireless video calling services, as well as multimedia services such as YouTube and their Video on Demand.

The only problem I can see is the limitations of data rates. Yeah, you can talk about YouTube, MySpace, XM satellite radio, and 1.8 million tracks in a music store, but what good does it do if you can’t do any of it over the air?

One would hope, though, that the launch of this high-speed data network would mean that data rates will fall in the near future. Though that might just be me being overly optimistic.

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