EDMONTON and CALGARY – Telus has pledged to spend upwards of $700 million on their advanced wireless and wireline broadband infrastructure in Alberta. Work is currently underway on its next generation wireless network which the company expects to launch in Alberta and nationally by early 2010. Using the latest version of the high speed packet access (HSPA) technology, Telus said in a press release that the investment is expected to “ensure an optimal future transition to long term evolution (LTE) technology”, the emerging worldwide standard for fourth generation (4G) networks. Its broadband wireline network is also scheduled to launch by...
