Rogers launching new 100mbps LTE devices plus new LTE plans

[howard]

Rogers will be launching the Sierra Wireless AirCard 330U USB modem and 763S mobile hotspot. These LTE devices support speeds of up to 100mbps vs 75mbps on other Rogers LTE devices. They also support 2600Mhz and promise typical download speeds of ~40mbps vs 12-25mbps on their other LTE devices.

There's also a new $25/500MB LTE data plan plus new LTE compatible flex-rate plans.

100mbps is seriously fast and based on my LTE testing you'll probably be able to reach that speed sometimes. 2600Mhz support is also cool but I'm not sure if it will increase your coverage. Still, these maximum speeds are sort of meaningless because the rates max out at only 10GB of data transfer a month.

You getting one?

[Mr Mystery]

Lol, 100Mbps with a 500 meg plan, that would be interesting

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[profets]

Lol, 100Mbps with a 500 meg plan, that would be interesting

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Lol... Are you offering to give it a try?

It's almost reaching the point of when Rogers had launched 3G and our data options were 2MB and 4MB.

[Sneakz]

Was the 2600Mhz their old Rogers Portable Internet frequency?

[howard]

Was the 2600Mhz their old Rogers Portable Internet frequency?

That's correct

[WorldIRC]

Does this mean Rogers has deployed over 2600?

[Sgt_Strider]

Does anyone here know if the 763S will have Rogers branding on it?

Also, does anyone here know the details of Rogers' new LTE flex data plan

[Steve Punter]

500 MB is kinda funny. If you were to do just ONE speed test on LTE each day of the month, that would burn through 600 MB alone. I don't think people are aware of just how much data running Speedtest.net consumes. It's 20 MB a pop, and that adds up fast if you make a habit running those speed tests to impress yourself (or your friends). I've personally burned through over a GB on speed tests in a single month.

[WorldIRC]

Does anyone here know if the 763S will have Rogers branding on it?

Also, does anyone here know the details of Rogers' new LTE flex data plan

The current LTE devices didn't have any branding...doubt the new ones will...

[WorldIRC]

500 MB is kinda funny. If you were to do just ONE speed test on LTE each day of the month, that would burn through 600 MB alone. I don't think people are aware of just how much data running Speedtest.net consumes. It's 20 MB a pop, and that adds up fast if you make a habit running those speed tests to impress yourself (or your friends). I've personally burned through over a GB on speed tests in a single month.

Here here!

[Treatz]

500 MB is kinda funny. If you were to do just ONE speed test on LTE each day of the month, that would burn through 600 MB alone. I don't think people are aware of just how much data running Speedtest.net consumes. It's 20 MB a pop, and that adds up fast if you make a habit running those speed tests to impress yourself (or your friends). I've personally burned through over a GB on speed tests in a single month.

which is why the complaint that 6 and 10 gig plans aren't enough.
You've stated that using an LTE phone won't incur any more data usage then using your HSPA phone.

I disagree.

When I got my HSPA Berry I used substantially more data then when I had my GPRS Berry
when I got my iphone 4 / 4S I used even more.

Why?
because these phones made it feasible and FUN to use data instead of the utilitarian and no app usege of my 8310 / 8900.

even without speedtest.net I'd wager that because you're on a shiny S II LTE you're using more data then you did "just because"

[Steve Punter]

Gratuitous speed tests notwithstanding, I still haven't found myself using vastly more data on LTE than I used to consume on HSPA. My use of the phone has remained much the same, only now it works faster. A large chunk of my monthly usage has always been streaming audio (I used my phone as my sole source of music, usually over services such as Slacker, or with TuneIn Radio).

Even if I doubled or tripled my usage, 6 GB is still more than enough. I didn't mind doing a full GB of speed tests, because I still only used up just under 3 GB that month. Besides, that was the first month I had the LTE phone and I was "going crazy" running stuff on LTE that I normally wouldn't, just to find out what it was capable of.

We'll see how my usage levels out once the novelty aspect of LTE wears off. And anyway, I still stand by my assertion that big advantage to LTE isn't the raw speed anyway, it's the low latency (and more specifically the fact that latency doesn't deteriorate with the signal strength, as it does with HSPA).

I ran a speed test at a spot in Square One where the signal on LTE was -117 dBm and I still got a ping time of 70 milliseconds. The ability to maintain a stable latency over a wide variety of signal conditions is typical of WiFi (802.11) as well, but even it doesn't do quite as well as LTE does.