Rogers speeds up mobile video with launch of LTE-Advanced

TORONTO – Rogers rolled out LTE-Advanced, the next evolution of wireless technology that combines its 700MHz and AWS spectrum, to Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Windsor, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Moncton, Fredericton, Halifax and Saint John on Friday, and said that more markets will soon follow.Rogers was the only carrier to secure two blocks of contiguous 700MHz spectrum across the country's major geographic markets, it said. This 700 spectrum, located in select rural and urban locations, carries wireless signals across longer distances, while the AWS spectrum has greater capacity and is suited for high density towns and cities.The company noted that mobile...