Montreal will soon deliver wireless Internet and mobile IP telephony to residents. A new WiMAX based Wi-Fi network is being deployed across the metropolitan area, as a result of a joint venture between two Quebec-based businesses: independent Internet service provider Radioactif.com and Nomade Télécom, wireless network installer and operator.
The new wireless services will be made available first to residents of Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood. By 2009, the network will expand to blanket nearly 300 square kilometres of Montreal servicing approximately 90% of residents, the companies describe. It will provide an affordable alternative to the oligopoly maintained by companies currently providing telephone, cellular and Internet service.
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News source: MediaCaster Magazine
The new wireless services will be made available first to residents of Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood. By 2009, the network will expand to blanket nearly 300 square kilometres of Montreal servicing approximately 90% of residents, the companies describe. It will provide an affordable alternative to the oligopoly maintained by companies currently providing telephone, cellular and Internet service.
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I'd like to see this in The Durham and Peel region, though!
A side note, can we finally get data costs on a cellular networks to come down? That price is outrageous it makes taking business on the road a huge overhead.
Montreal has had WiMAX for quite a while. So the only real news here is upcoming competition.
Bell and Rogers have deployed the infrastructure in partnership, and both providers offer their own version of the service (ie Rogers Portable Internet and Sympatico Unplugged)
I've been using it for almost a year already and it works quite well.
One caveat: both providers block VoIP (SIP).
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