カナダの通信エリア

カナダ の数値が意味すること

重要な数値は2つあり、どの会社も引用するのはそのうち1つだけです。一般的な速度は58 Mbps。調子のいいときがどれくらいかを示す数字です。

読む価値があるのは10パーセンタイル、13 Mbpsのほうです。駅の上の基地局が混み合い、周りの全員が同じ電波につながっている、その日の下位1割のときの速度です。中央値が高くて下限が低い国は、本当に必要になるその瞬間まではみごとに動く国だということです。

ビデオ通話やテザリングが欠かせない旅なら、一般的な速度ではなく混雑時の数値を基準に計画してください。

カナダで回線が混んだときに起きること

混雑は故障ではなく、火曜の夜です。問題は、そのときeSIMに何ができるかで、たいていの旅行用eSIMの答えは「何もできない」です。国ごとに卸契約が1つ、ネットワークが1つ、路上に立ったまま他社のeSIMをもう1枚買う以外に逃げ道がありません。

ここではOrbisloの通信はRogers、Bellを通ります。いま乗っているネットワークが劣化したら、旅行の途中でも、お客様が頼まなくても別の回線へ移します。そのときに邪魔をするのではなく、あとからお知らせします。

カナダの携帯キャリア

• Rogers: Rogers was the biggest buyer in Canada's 2021 3500 MHz auction, winning 325 licences for 3,325,600,269 dollars and covering about 34.96 million people.
• Bell: Bell Mobility won 271 licences in the 2021 3500 MHz auction for 2,074,088,697 dollars, and TELUS won 142 licences for 1,947,488,091 dollars, against 325 licences for Rogers.
• Vidéotron: Vidéotron won 294 licences in the 2021 3500 MHz auction for 829,966,483 dollars, with those licences covering about 30 million people, more than the 24.9 million covered by TELUS's 3500 MHz licences.
• TELUS: In the 2023 3800 MHz auction TELUS took the most licences, 1,430 for 619,644,666 dollars. Bell won 939 for 518,066,254 dollars, Rogers 860 for 474,766,132 dollars and Vidéotron 305 for 298,901,400 dollars.
• Rogers: Rogers took 52 licences in the 2019 600 MHz low-band auction for 1,725,006,000 dollars, covering 35.15 million people. TELUS won 12 licences, Freedom 11 and Vidéotron 10, while Bell won none.

カナダの旧世代ネットワーク

• Bell's 3G/HSPA network stopped being available in Manitoba from 31 December 2025, and the national discontinuation date is 1 March 2027. From then, calls on Bell need a phone that supports VoLTE on its 4G or 5G network.
• Rogers is retiring its 2G network on 30 November 2027. A phone without VoLTE makes its voice calls over 2G even when it shows 4G or 5G, so after that date such a phone loses service completely on Rogers, including 911.

カナダの5G

• Rogers started Canada's first 5G rollout on 15 January 2020 in downtown Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, first on 2.5 GHz spectrum, with 600 MHz and later 3.5 GHz to follow.
• Canada's 3500 MHz auction ran from 15 June to 23 July 2021 and raised 8.91 billion dollars. It awarded 1,495 of 1,504 licences to 15 companies, 757 of them to small and regional providers, with up to 50 MHz set aside for smaller carriers where available.
• Canada auctioned 3800 MHz spectrum for 5G in an auction whose final results were published on 30 November 2023, with Bell, Rogers, TELUS and Vidéotron each taking hundreds of licences across the country.

カナダのネットワークについて

• On 8 July 2022 a failure in Rogers' core network cut wireless and wireline service across Canada from 4:58 EDT until 7:00 EDT the next day, affecting more than 12 million customers, including payment services such as Interac e-Transfer.
• During the July 2022 Rogers outage, a large share of Rogers customers could not reach 9-1-1, and emergency public alerts were also affected, because the failed core network also connected customers to emergency services.
• On 1 June 2017 the telecom regulator directed all Canadian telephone companies to upgrade their networks so they are ready to carry next-generation 9-1-1, covering both voice calls and text messages to emergency centres.
• Since September 2022, Canada's main carriers have been bound by a memorandum that lets a customer of a failed network roam onto another carrier for voice, text and data where technically feasible, with 9-1-1 voice traffic given priority over all other wireless traffic as far as feasible.