Tag: Rogers
Telus Is The First Canadian Carrier To Offer Two-Year Wireless Contracts, Bell To Follow Suite
In early June, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced new rules for Canadian carriers, including one that says Canadians can cancel their wireless...
Rogers and Vidéotron To Expand LTE Network In Ottawa, Québec
Rogers and Vidéotron have announced plans to bring LTE connectivity to more customers in the Ottawa area and in the province of Québec. This deal has...
How Little Mikey Racked Up $22,000 In Roaming Charges While In Mexico
A Canadian, apparently oblivious to the outright robbery that Canadian cellular carriers get away with, found himself with a whopping $22,000 data usage bill after...
Rogers Continues LTE Expansion, Now In 18 New Canadian Markets
Rogers customers will be happy to hear that the carrier has expanded its LTE coverage to 18 new Canadian markets. Having just celebrated it’s 1...
Rogers rolls out more LTE networks in major Canadian cities
Rogers, a major communications company in Canada, has announced that in addition to launching LTE in Ottawa and a few other cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver)...
Clearly carriers will be pissed about iMessage
With a markup that seems like it passes that bazillion percent mark, it’s no surprise that people are a little bit disenchanted with the carriers’...
Just like that Rogers turns on LTE in Ottawa
The switch has been flicked, despite not having LTE devices avilable on the network — Rogers has turned on their LTE wireless network in Ottawa,...
iPhone Personal Hotspot a go for carriers in US and Canada
Here at Macgasm, we’re a big international family. As such, we usually end up making jokes about each other’s countries. One thing we agree on...
Skype finally lets us make calls over 3G—until August
It’s finally happened. US iPhone owners can now make Skype-to-Skype calls over the 3G network. I’d completely forgotten that we were waiting for this functionality....
Rogers says tethering now included for some people
We Canadians have been pretty lucky with our data plans. It took a while, but telcos up here have been kind enough to let us...
Telus brings iPhone woes
As you may have previously read, Telus is suing Rogers over their advertising campaign in which they tout themselves as Canada’s fastest mobile network and...
Telus / Bell is really sticking it to Rogers in speed tests.
Roger’s has the fastest network according to their marketing campaign, but now that Bell/Telus has jumped on the iPhone bandwagon up here in Canada, there’s...
Roger’s stock runs dry.
Let it be a sign to tech companies everywhere! Canada love’s its tech, and Americans should stop under estimating us, we’re just as geeky as...
MMS issues in Canada. Go figure.
With every new piece of news I get about Rogers and telcos, a little bit of my soul dies. Mark my words, in 5 years...
The iPhone 3G S cryfest has begun! Get over it.
I’m not sure what people expected when they signed a two or three year contract with a telco for a brand new iPhone. Did you...
Canada finally gets real television shows in iTunes.
From the “This might be old news, but it’s new to me”department–it looks like the Canadian iTunes store might have finally given us lowly Canadians...
One week without a dataplan.
I’m not a novice, and I’m certainly not the “typical” iphone user; however, it has been my first week with one, so I could be...
iPhone coverage, and Rogers turnarounds.
First things first. I don’t feel that the best way to cover something is to recycle stories from around the internet. I’m sure, as a...