TORONTO – The high temperature yesterday might have been about seven degrees in Southern Ontario but rest assured, the just-completed May long weekend means summer is upon us.
And with that comes the weekly trek to the middle of the province and back by hundreds of thousands of Canadians with cottages on one of the thousands of lakes in cottage country. Many of those trekkers are business people with work to do and Bell Canada has announced its EVDO (Evolution Data Optimized) high-speed wireless data network is now available to residents and cottagers in Lake Muskoka, Lake Joseph, western Lake Rosseau, Bala, Port Carling and Gamebridge, Ontario.
Area residents and visitors – and those trapped in their cars for hours on end – can now access Bell’s third-generation (3G) wireless network, and its related products and services through unprecedented data download speed of up to 2.4Mbps.
"EVDO is the leading edge of wireless technology and Bell Canada has brought its high-speed data network to cottage country such as Muskoka and Lake Simcoe – the perennial playgrounds for tourists, cottagers and residents," said Jim Jaques, senior vice-president, Bell Mobility. "Now, staying on top of and catching up with the activities back at the office is as easy as going to the end of the dock and connecting wirelessly to the fastest mobile data network available."
With the recent growth and ease of access to wireless mobile networks, the cottage can be a business-ready location for telecommuting, without resorting to satellite or dial-up links. People are becoming remote workers and are taking business with them to their cottages. With EVDO, a one-megabyte file can take just 20 seconds to download, compared to two minutes on traditional networks.
Access to Bell’s wireless EVDO data network will also impact local businesses. For example, a real estate agent driving a customer past their "dream house" can instantly access the property’s data via MLS and share it with their client, even down a dusty road near Bala.
Bell Mobility already offers its customers high-speed wireless data network access in Vancouver, Whistler, Calgary, Edmonton, Brandon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville, Ottawa, Quebec City, Mont-Tremblant and Montreal
