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Fri, 09/11/2009 - 7:10pm

The new Nuvi 1690 looks good but why no "nulink" services north of the border?

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Fri, 09/11/2009 - 7:16pm

There could be

Garmin would need to sign up a Canadian cellular carrier for the nuLink services (including traffic) to work in Canada.

So technically Canadian cities are part of the Navteq Traffic coverage, but if you can't get the US carrier's EDGE data while in Canada it won't work.

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