Telus, Sierra Wireless carrying EV-DO Rev A to Canada
If the Canucks out there have been getting a bit jealous at all the Rev A love going around down south, your resentment ends now -- well, sometime this year, anyway. Thanks to Telus and Sierra Wireless, EV-DO Rev A connectvitiy is headed to Canada in the coming months, as interested users will be able to pop the AirCard 595 into their laptop's PCMCIA slot and reportedly reach peak speeds of up to 3.1Mbps downstream and 1.8Mbps upstream. Of course, it is noted that typical speeds will range between 300 to 400Kbps whilst uploading, and 450 to 800Kbps on the downward slope, but you Canadians will probably take what you can get, eh? Unfortunately, there's no set dates for the future rollouts, and "select markets" is all we have to go on for availability, but we do know that Telus will be charging $349.99 for the AirCard 595 sans a contract, or you can lock yourself in for a whopping three years if you've only got $99.99 to spare.
Filed under: Peripherals, Telus Mobility, EV-DO
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Elias C. @ Feb 16th 2007 11:54PM
this is so useless for us, $100/month will get MAX 250MB...how fast can I burn through that with this speed. Again, I don't know why Telus is bothering.
person4 @ Feb 22nd 2007 9:04AM
What happened to the other comments that were here? I pointed a discussion to the several comments on this article and now they're gone. Just felt like it?