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WIND Mobile: A green light and a clean slate for mobile in Canada

December 11, 2009

Earlier today, the Canadian government overturned the CRTC’s ruling that Globalive would not be permitted to operate its WIND mobile service in Canada due to its foreign ownership structure.

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Rogers On Demand Online: Coming soon to a computer near you

November 26, 2009

Earlier this week I was invited to attend an intimate gathering held by Rogers at Yorkville’s Hazelton Hotel. It was in the Silver Screening room where Rogers unveiled what they believe to be “the next big thing in TV”.

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Hot dog vendor implements mobile carrier fee structure. Hilarious!

October 19, 2009

Looks like the folks at WIND Mobile (the Globalive team) have a great sense of humour as they prepare to go after the big mobile carriers. Don’t think mobile pricing is messed up in Canada? Then watch watch happens when a hot dog vendor tries to adapts traditional mobile billing fees to his own business:

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No iPhone at Apple Stores on July 11 But Don’t Blame Apple.

July 8, 2008

On July 11, the launch of Apple’s latest 3G iPhone was supposed to happen at Rogers/Fido stores and also at Apple store locations. There’s a lot of speculation about why the Apple Store decided not to sell the phones on launch day, but to me it’s pretty clear: Apple employees are not Rogers employees. It’s [...]

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Rogers announces iPhone finally

April 29, 2008

Rogers issued a VERY short press release on the iPhone launch in Canada today: TORONTO, April 29 – Ted Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Communications Inc. today issued the following statement: We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. We [...]

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Canadian ISP Throttling Conversation Continues in Parliament

April 3, 2008

Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus brought the issue of net neutrality and the throttling of network access front and center recently when suggested that Industry Minister Jim Prentice’s “Hands off approach to hands on interference is bad news for the development of the Canadian innovation agenda.” [vid]r5UvAKcxTGE[/vid] In the video above, he went on to [...]

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Macworld: Apple to Announce iPhone in Canada?

January 8, 2008

On January 15th, at the 2008 MacWorld Conference & Expo, Steve Jobs will announce the settlement of Apple’s dispute with Comwave over the iPhone trademark in Canada, that Rogers has revamped the pricing on its data plans and the iPhone is available in Canada immediately at Apple Stores across the country. At least, that’s what [...]

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