Carriers

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced it wants your input on the future of 911 services in this country, as a formal review will be coming in 2014-2015. National Commissioner Tim Denton has been appointed as an Inquiry Officer to report feedback findings in May of next year. "Each year, the 911 system...

Virgin Mobile has offered a pretty hot voice and data plan that includes 6GB of data--but it's only available in Thunder Bay. According to MobileSyrup, the smartphone plan includes the following: Unlimited Canada-wide calling Unlimited SMS/MMS to Canada/USA/International Voicemail, Caller ID 6GB of data ($10/GB overages) $50/month Bell is already offering customers in Thunder Bay...

TELUS has announced the launch of 4G LTE in St. Catharines, part of the company's $650 million investment in Ontario over the next three years to expand wireless networks. “TELUS is committed to offering the best customer experience and launching our 4G LTE service in St. Catharines is an excellent example of how we’re doing...

Two communities in the Northwest Territories now have 3G HSPA wireless service, as NorthwesTel has completed upgrades in both Norman Wells and Fort Simpson. Curtis Shaw, Vice President of Marketing at Northwestel announced the following: “Next generation wireless services have been highly anticipated in these communities. Northwestel is pleased to meet customer demand with the...

After three years in Canada, WIND Mobile has managed to build up a subscriber base of 560,000 users, which makes it the fourth largest carrier in the country. Rogers, TELUS and Bell still hold 91% of the wireless market compared to new wireless entrants. WIND Mobile's chief operating officer, Pietro Cordova, in an interview with...

Marc Garneau - Canada's first astronaut Liberal MP Marc Garneau recently announced in late November of his intention to run for the leadership of the federal Liberal Party of Canada. Yesterday on his website he announced his "Telecommunications Statement", which urges for increased foreign competition within our telecom industry to drive better service and pricing:...

Canada is a special place. Why? Because when it comes to subsidies on the latest smartphones, our wireless contracts are three years compared to just two in the USA and other countries around the world. With the CRTC recently announcing the results of their wireless code consultation, the results showed the top 100 'liked' comment...

TELUS has filed a lawsuit against new wireless entrant Mobilicity alleging a TV ad aired by the latter is "false and misleading", according to a notice of civil claim filed with the Supreme Court of British Columbia filed on December 7th. TELUS alleges a Mobilicity ad spot contains three "misrepresentations" that damages its brand and that...

On the weekend, Fido dropped their $57 unlimited promo plan by a dollar to $56. Virgin Mobile quickly followed and matched Fido, and now TELUS has let us know Koodo has done the same, as noted on their Canada-wide promo plans page: Earlier, we also noted Fido's $67 unlimited plan also was updated to include...

Bell is stepping up its game to target existing MTS customers in Manitoba to switch over by offering a free iPhone 5, reports the Winnipeg Free Press. Wade Oosterman, president of Bell Mobility, says this is the time for their company to try to win over customers in Manitoba: "Over our history there was connections...

Rogers CEO Nazir Mohamed, speaking to investors at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York last Tuesday, told the crowd the company is seeing a turnaround in growth as users consume more data thanks to smartphone adoption and a lessening impact from smaller wireless entrants. Mohamed noted “clearly, the business has had an...

According to the CBC, the CRTC commission created to hear input from Canadians on setting up a wireless code has only resulted in over 500 responses from a pool of 27 million cellphone users: The commission is expected to issue a draft code by the end of next month, after which a second round of...