Telus and Bell team up for 4G wireless net

VANCOUVER and MONTREAL – Canada’s two biggest telcos put out separate press releases today touting their impending wireless network upgrades to HSPA and eventually LTE, but buried within them both, Telus and Bell say they’ll be working together on the upgrade, expected to cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Telus was finally mentioned in the ninth paragraph of the Bell release and Bell in the eighth paragraph of the Telus release. They’ve jointly selected Nokia Networks and Huawei as their primary technology suppliers. Both of the telcos currently offer mobile services over their CDMA/EVDO networks, which work just...