Rogers Communications, the Canadian communications and media company, is working on a way to offer a kind of over-the-top or pay-per-view video service over its LTE wireless network.
The service would be available on phones, tablets and TVs much like Netflix, reported the Montreal Gazette, citing Rogers President and CEO Nadir Mohamed.
Mohamed said theoretical speeds of 100 megabits per second over an LTE network will allow the company to offer an enhanced video streaming service, but he noted the company won't offer the service to connected devices outside areas where the company provides cable TV service.
"Will we replicate (our) cable platform outside the areas where we currently have franchises? I don't think of it that way," the newspaper quoted Mohamed as saying in a meeting with reporters at a hotel in Montreal. "I think people will be much more selective and it will appear much more like an over the top service provider."
Last month Rogers announced activating its first LTE smartphone in Canada, the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE. The Toronto-based company said at the time that its LTE network was available to roughly 5.5 million Canadians.
