I posted a while back about TELUS having installed a couple picocells in our building. These provide both public wifi (#TELUS) and are picocell sites. I'm on Koodo and they do increase our cell signal considerably in parts of the building that had significant trouble with cellular coverage. They don't have enough power to do much outside of a couple floors but they do help in higher traffic areas where many people had trouble accessing internet on their cellular devices.
TELUS has told me they are currently provisioned with 250Mbps symmetrical and I have run a couple cellular speed tests. In the previous-deadzones I can now pull over 100Mbps on cellular. #TELUS Wifi however is still capped at 10Mbps (which I think sucks). Also, Telus' public wifi could really take a page from Shaw's book and let us log in with our accounts and add devices so you're not having to re-register so often.
The units themselves are Huawei BTS3911B from what I've gathered.
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