Category Archives: data rates

Canadian Wireless Spectrum Announcement

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Thomas Purves

The rumours are buzzing that a major announcement is due after 4pm this afternoon regarding Canada’s wireless spectrum allocation. Watch this post for ongoing coverage. And look for full coverage at StartupNorth.ca later today -and- another highly-related announcement I can’t … Continue reading →

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Wireless Data Getting Better in Canada, but a ways to go yet.

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Rogers cracks and offers (a rather unheralded) $65 1 gig wireless data plan in Canada. Here’s a link to that plan on a partner site, and apparently if you call rogers their agents will know about the $65 plan (thanks … Continue reading →

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And if that doesn’t do it, WiMax is coming

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Thomas Purves

From Intel’s developer forum today: “Intel is developing a Wimax enabled CPU [chipset?] called Echo Creek in the middle of next year, with a number of vendors committing to producing notebooks that use the chip. By 2012, over a billion … Continue reading →

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