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From: bv (no email)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 10:19:36 EDT
Knowing that M. Siegel is a professional in new technologies, I wish he
could double check his informations before spreading any "I would be
surprised to hear..."
It's not exactly third world around here. 1x data has been available for a
few years (at least 3), and EVDO is yours since last summer 2005 in urban
networks, Greater Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec City, and probably
others.
In Canada, for any accurate information, check Telus or Bell Mobility for
CDMA ; Rogers and Fido for GSM.
While in USA, my Telus connection (EVDO and 1x) gives me access to Verizon
network at no roaming charge.
My Rogers telephone gives me access to AT&T at no roaming charge if I choose
the North American plan.
As for wi-fi access, I live in a normal suburb 10 minutes from downtown
Montreal. Just for fun, recently, I went 4 blocks around my house with the
laptop searching for wifi networks (check Kismac to do so on a MAC). In
about 15 minutes, I could identify about 125 networks, 30% of them beeing
wide open (no password).
B.
>> RE: the new EVDO or 1X networks.
>> The question is how available is this outside of Urban areas
>> and what about Canada which is after all part of North America?
>>
>
> 1X and all CDMA (Verizon) data connectivity go away as you move North
> (really East) from the Brunswick/Boothbay area of Maine. This means that
> about 1/3rd of the Maine coast has it available. I would be surprised to
> hear that 1X/data is available anywhere in Canada.
>
> Below Portland, Maine, 1X is pretty reliable from my on-the-boat experience
> through Key West, Florida. In the couple of places where we couldn't get a
> 1X connection (NC mostly) we were always able to get a lower speed
> digital/data CDMA connection.
>
> GSM/GPRS/data connections (Cingular, AT&T) should be available everywhere
> along the coast now. Higher speed GPRS data connections are pretty good out
> here on the Penobscot Bay. I would be surprised to hear that GPRS wasn't
> available along the Canadian East coast except in the most remote areas
> where no cell service exists. I hope to find out this Summer directly...
>
>
> ================
> Jeffrey Siegel
> M/V aCappella
> DeFever 53PH
> W1ACA/WDB4350
> Castine, Maine
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