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Mobile Minute: AT&T and Rogers sign roaming pact

AT&T subscribers traveling in Canada can now take their LTE service with them. The carrier says it has a roaming agreement with Canada’s Rogers Communications. AT&T says the Rogers LTE network reaches 70% of all the people in Canada, and 95 new markets are being added this year. For its part Rogers says it will be the first Canadian carrier to offer its customers roaming in the United States.

In other mobile news, Square has improved its credit and debit card reader. It says the new device should result in fewer swiping errors. The new reader is thinner than the old one and will work with ore mobile devices.

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Martha DeGrasse is the publisher of Network Builder Reports (nbreports.com). At RCR, Martha authored more than 20 in-depth feature reports and more than 2,400 news articles. She also created the Mobile Minute and the 5 Things to Know Today series. Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Martha produced business and technology news for CNN and Dow Jones in New York and managed the online editorial group at Hoover’s Online before taking a number of years off to be at home when her children were young. Martha is the board president of Austin's Trinity Center and is a member of the Women's Wireless Leadership Forum.