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Canadian Telecoms To Roll Out iPhones In November
Canada’s smartphone market will further heat up in November following the separate announcement Tuesday by Bell Canada and Telus Corporation of plans to roll out their Apple iPhone 3G and 3Gs models.
Their move is expected to put pressure on Rogers Communications, which used to be the exclusive distributor of Apple smartphones.
Bell, which is launching the smartphone ahead of schedule, recently completed its upgrade of its wireless network in the direction of the high-speed packet access technology, which is the network standard that iPhones would work. Bell’s original timetable was to launch its iPhone by February 2010.
Previously, Bell and Telus used the code-division multiple access network technology. Rogers had been using HSPA technology since 2004.
Bell Canada president and chief executive officer George Cope said in a statement, “The new HSPA network executes on our strategic imperatives to accelerate wireless in Canada and to invest in next-generation broadband networks – supporting our goal for Bell to be recognized by customers as Canada’s leading communications company.”
Telus said it will provide more information about prices and availability of its coming offering in the next few weeks.
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