The Telus HSDPA may or may not be on the air and it won't make huge differences. The rollout that may have happened already and/or is to happen soon will be of limited use anywhere outside the perimiter highway surrounding the City of Winnipeg. At best it will be a corridor along the Trans Canada Highway from Winnipeg to Brandon and possibly to Steinbach.

If you Google "Telus HSPA coverage Manitoba" you will find dozens of links and lots of discussion about what is happening in Manitoba. These are probably the best description of what is happening:
http://tek.ca/2011/02/telus-hs…..uary-16th/
or http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/02…..uary-16th/
There are lots of unhappy people.

Telus partnered with Sask Tel so Saskatchewan is covered or in the process of being covered. Telus and MTS did not partner.

MTS partnered with Rogers for HSDPA. The rollout of the MTS HSDPA is scheduled for the end of March. I was in Manitoba at the beginning of February and Rogers/Speakout phones both showed more 3G coverage than on a visit last fall so the network is expanding.
http://www.thompsoncitizen.net…..toba-begin

Telus apparently bought spectrum in Manitoba for province wide coverage, so they can't force MTS to provide roaming. Bell didn't bid on that auction — partly because of their deal to carve Canada in half with Telus. Bell could force MTS to allow roaming for phone and text because they have no spectrum licensed in Manitoba — where that leaves President's Choice is anybody's guess.
http://www.howardforums.com/pr…..mp;page=14
Scroll down to a post by Que_Ball that has explanation and links explaining the rules.

Coverage in Manitoba is going to be strange for a long time to come. MTS have roaming agreements with Telus and Bell for voice and text but no data on Telus or Bell CDMA phones — that covers most of the province. MTS covers most of the province for voice and text and parts of the province with data on their CDMA network. Rogers covers a fairly large part of Southern Manitoba with their GSM network. There is less coverage than MTS CDMA in lots or rural areas and nothing in the north. When the Rogers/MTS partnership is rolled out completely, MTS and Rogers 3G phones will have as much or more coverage than the MTS CDMA network. You can roam outside Manitoba on the Rogers network with your MTS 3G phone. You can roam outside Manitoba with your MTS CDMA phone on the Telus and Bell Networks.

Confused yet?

Telus and/or Bell will not ever have full province wide 3G coverage without building a huge amount of towers and repeater sites. That will happen slowly if at all. They may provide coverage along the major highways in southern Manitoba but even that will not be complete in the forseeable future.

Yup, PC has had their mobile browsing rates switched for a while now. That is the only reason I made the switch to SO.