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 video consumption is skyrocketing, predicting that it will make up more than half of all online video views within a year.
"This new network technology allows us to combine our 700MHz beachfront spectrum with AWS, the backbone of our LTE network, to give our customers an even better and faster video experience. It's like putting the highways in a major city together to make a superhighway, allowing more traffic at faster speeds," said Guy Laurence, Rogers president and CEO, in the news release.
