I was reading this review of a Sony notebook on Tom's Hardware when I noticed it mentioned a technology called EDGE which basically means you can get internet from a mobile phone provider.
There's a map halfway down the page and to my interest, Alberta is like some anomaly, with almost complete coverage across most of the empty rural province unlike the rest of North America where it is only concentrated around urban centres and large swathes of population.
Why is this? Does this have anything to do with the Alberta Supernet? Or does it just me we have very good cellphone towers?
If this is the case, how do we access this? The article talks about Cingular wireless providing unlimited internet service for $50/month but is there anything like that here? What exactly is this?
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