Sprint and Canadian telco Rogers Communications said Thursday...
Sprint and Canadian telco Rogers Communications said Thursday they will team up to bring Internet content to Canadian cars beginning in 2014. Sprint Velocity-enabled cars shipped to Canada will use Rogers’ wireless services, the companies said. The Sprint Velocity service…
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provides users with entertainment as well as driving directions, car diagnostics and other services through a dashboard touchscreen. The service also gives users wireless connectivity for their mobile devices. The presence of more than 20 million vehicles in Canada gives Rogers a “strong growth opportunity in the connected auto segment,” said Mansell Nelson, vice president-advanced business solutions, in a news release. A March 2012 Juniper Research study predicted there will be about 100 million connected cards on the road by 2016, Sprint and Rogers said (http://bit.ly/15wUECa).