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Industry Minister seeked “further comments” from industry players to resolve Globalive issue

By on November 10, 2009 at 5:40pm in Asides, Globalive News, Mobile News, Various News, WIND Mobile

globalivelogoThe Globalive/WIND foreign ownership story is continuing in a script manner. Honestly if you are a Canadian screenwriter and want to make a documentary this is one to seriously think about.

Since the CRTC stalled them from launching, Industry Minister Tony Clement has stepped in to review the situation. According to The Globe, he sent a letter last Friday to telecom players for further insight. The sub submissions are due back by November 18th so that a decision will be made in a “timely manner”.

The letter stated “I am in the process of carefully reviewing this ruling… Should you have further comments with respect to the matter, over and above what you have already submitted, I would appreciate receiving them.”

So… time has passed since the news from the CRTC kiboshed Globalives plans… as wireless customers, do you believe we’ll see them launching before the holidays?

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Discussion

10 comments for “Industry Minister seeked “further comments” from industry players to resolve Globalive issue”

  1. No. All he will get back is more of the same drivel and that will take weeks to go through.

    I have no hope of a pre-Christmas WIND launch. I’d say it’s Spring before they are allowed to launch and DAVE might even beat them to the launch.

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    Posted by Joe | November 10, 2009, 5:46 pm
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  2. I hope that the issue is resolved to the best for the CUSTOMMERS and not for the corporations.

    I’m sure the Big3 benefited enough from the overpriced services that they have been selling for years, it’s time for a change.

    I’m not even sure why nobody took the matter more seriously before they even brought a brand from the outside to have us realize how they’re ripping us off.

    Bad management = bad service = bad network + high cost = crap

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    Posted by Jean-Michel Desrosiers | November 10, 2009, 5:47 pm
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  3. No way are they going to launch before Christmas but I do believe they’ll launch very early in the new year. I’m just itching to cancel my family plan with Bell.

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    Posted by Scott | November 10, 2009, 7:10 pm
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  4. Expect some serious foot-dragging from the big 3. I’mm expecting a “Nov 18 is far too short a deadline to give us a chance to reply. Please give us an extra few years” shartly.

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    Posted by Kmusky | November 10, 2009, 7:43 pm
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    • Rogers, Telus and Bell have probably been preparing follow-up submissions since the CRTC decision was announced. They won’t have any trouble submitting by Nov 18.

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      Posted by TNSF | November 10, 2009, 10:47 pm

  5. I doubt they’ll launch before the new year. But hopefully in January. The big three just wanted to buy some time and avoid the big surge in wind’s sales before the holidays.
    Thanks God my contract is ending with Fido in a month. They ripped me off for so long. I’ve been paying $70 in average for pretty much nothing. I already emailed my MP, PM, and the minister to carefully consider this and also investigate the CRTC’s role in supporting antiCanadian Rogers/Bell/Telus.

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    Posted by Mamad | November 10, 2009, 10:14 pm
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  6. Well, from what I’ve heard from sources is that even IF they get to eventually launch, they will only have very very limited coverage to begin with, so its not going to be for everyone, so in my opinion we shouldn’t all get hopped up with excitement about Wind. Further, a friend of mine was treated like crap over at Wind, so I gotta say that I will be boycotting them and waiting for public mobile and dave wireless, personally.

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    Posted by Ian | November 11, 2009, 7:56 am
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  7. @Ian
    “friend of mine was treated like crap over at Wind”

    What the hell are you talking about – WIND did NOT launch yet – how can your friend be treated like crap when WIND doesn’t even exist yet?…

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    Posted by TheCustomer | November 11, 2009, 10:58 am
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  8. @Ian, regarding Wind’s coverage, they’ll be a national carrier, original plan was to start in Toronto and Calgary around now and start Vancouver and other major mertopolitan cities early 2010. so coverage should be good.

    and yeah… how did your friend get treated badly by a company that hasn’t offered any services yet?

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    Posted by Clement | November 12, 2009, 4:32 am
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  9. Wind wont launch Vancouver till well after end of 1st Q 2010. I hear they are not paying some landlords rent in Vancouver and building the network has stalled.

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    Posted by Chen | November 13, 2009, 7:39 pm
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