OTTAWA – TELUS today launched its high-speed wireless service in Ottawa, bringing broadband speeds to handheld devices.
The service began rolling out last November across the country and besides the nation’s capital is available so far in Vancouver, Whistler, Edmonton, Calgary, Fort McMurray, Toronto and Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe region, Montreal, Mont-Tremblant, St. Jovite, and Quebec City. Other cities will get the service through the year, the telco said.
“TELUS is excited to bring wireless high speed to Ottawa, a city recognized for the past three decades as being at the forefront of the wireless revolution and a leader in wireless innovations that transform the way we live and do business,” said Robert Blumenthal, TELUS’ Senior Vice President of Products and Services. “By uniting the broadband speed of our wireless high speed network with the newest portable computing and entertainment devices, TELUS is providing clients in urban centres across Canada with the most powerful mobile data solutions available.”
The service uses the EV-DO standard, the newest 3G wireless data technology, to deliver typical download speeds of 400 to 700 KB per second, and possible speeds of more than 2 MB per second.
