Rogers turns on additional wireless spectrum for BC, Alberta customers

VANCOUVER – Rogers has begun activating some of the AWS-1 spectrum that it picked up from Shaw last month, announcing Thursday that wireless customers in BC and Alberta now have faster speeds and higher quality mobile video.With this spectrum, which has been unused since 2008, Rogers said that it has doubled the speed that customers can get on its AWS LTE network in the two provinces. The full spectrum is first being activated in Calgary, Edmonton, Medicine Hat, Kelowna, Prince George, Vancouver and select other communities, with the remainder of the spectrum being activated by mid-2016."Today we're opening more lanes on our wireless...