June 10th, 2006
Telus expands wireless high speed to Cottage Country
Hot on the heals of Bell’s release of EVDO wireless high speed up in Muskoka, TELUS today announced the expansion of its Wireless High Speed service to Ontario cottage country. The service will offer consumer and business clients mobile access to the Internet, e-mail and other multimedia applications at broadband speeds similar to desktop internet access at home.
“TELUS is excited to offer Wireless High Speed in Ontario’s favourite year-round vacation destination,” said Robert Blumenthal, TELUS senior vice president of Products and Services. “With the broadband speed of our Wireless High Speed service and the newest portable computing and entertainment devices, local residents and the millions of tourists that visit the Muskoka and Lake Simcoe areas can now enjoy the fastest mobile data access speeds available in Canada.”
With typical download speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits per second, and maximum speeds of more than 2 megabits per second, TELUS Wireless High Speed service offers clients the speed they need for powerful mobile computing. Wireless High Speed is based on the CDMA 1xEVDO standard, the newest Third Generation (3G) wireless data technology available.
Since November, TELUS has launched Wireless High Speed in Vancouver, Whistler, Edmonton, Calgary, Fort McMurray, Toronto and Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe region, Ottawa, Montreal, Mont-Tremblant, St. Jovite and Quebec City. The company expects to continue to expand Wireless High Speed to other regions throughout 2006.
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