5 Years with GSM, Next up? HSDPA

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Rogers Wireless marked the five year anniversary of the launch of its GSM network in Canada. Since Rogers launched the service in July 2001, the global GSM subscriber base has quadrupled from approximately 500 million to more than two billion subscribers, while the Rogers Wireless subscriber base has increased from 2.7 million to more than 6.2 million wireless voice and data customers.

The Rogers Wireless network currently reaches 94 per cent of Canada's population - offering extensive coverage in both urban centres and connecting corridors - and Rogers is the only telecommunications service provider in Canada operating on the GSM family of technologies. GSM is the most widely used wireless technology in the world, with at least 690 mobile network operators offering service in 213 countries. Currently, more than 82 per cent of the world's wireless subscribers use the GSM platform, and recent statistics from Informa Telecoms and Media indicate that subscribers are picking GSM over other wireless network options at a rate of 10 to 1.

Following trials earlier this year, Rogers announced that it will start to offer its HSDPA network in the Fall of 2006. This launch will make Rogers the fastest mobile wireless data network in Canada, extending its leadership as the nation's largest supplier of wireless data services to include real-time 3G voice and video calling as well as real-time video sharing.

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