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Public Mobile: “what you say on your phone is more important than what your phone says about you”

It seems like it’s taking forever for Public Mobile to launch and even with the delays, now targeting mid-2010 sounds even longer. I guess building a network from scratch takes a bit more effort than simply putting towers up. Everyday gets closer and today they’ve added some new features to their website, specifically when it [...]

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TELUS launching Motorola Milestone February 18th?

Even though there has been rumours in the past about the incredibly anticipated launch of the Motorola Milestone. Earlier in the week we saw the upcoming Best Buy catalog that showed the Android-powered device as “coming soon”… then TELUS updated their site with the familiar slogan Apparently an Best Buy internal memo has been sent [...]

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Globalive brings on investment banks to expand WIND Mobile

Remember a few weeks ago when Globalive stated they were talking with a number of investment banks to raise “several hundred” million dollars for expanding their business. Well I guess it’s a done deal. Globalive today has “announced its intention to enter into a private debt financing for the purposes of continuing to expand the [...]

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TELUS doing West Coast network upgrades on February 8th… phone system will be limited

If you live in the communities of Fort St. John, Charlie Lake, and Cecil Lake or have the area codes: 261, 262, 263, 264, 785, 787, and 794 then you can expect a complete TELUS outage/interruption for your landline and cellphone on February 8-9th. TELUS has scheduled around 11:00 pm on Monday the 8th to [...]

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Texting and social networking sites the reason students can’t write correctly

This is hilarious and was bound to happen. When computers were invented and spell check came out it started a whole evolution/revolution of taking the easy way out from actually learning the correct way to spell words. In Today’s university or even workforce it’s screaming louder than ever. Ann Barrett is the managing director of [...]

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CRTC congratulates Canadian wireless providers that “have risen to the challenge” of upgrading 911 services

Exactly 1-year ago the CRTC mandated that Canadian wireless service providers to upgrade their 911 services, mainly because the technology was lacking to locate urgent calls and caused a number of deaths. Today the CRTC sent out a release and congratulated the Canadian wireless industry and the public safety community for having improved 911 services. [...]

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Fido releases software update for unreleased BlackBerry Curve 8520

This certainly confirms all the rumours of Fido getting the BlackBerry Curve 8520. If you check out this link you’ll notice that Fido has pushed out OS 4.6.1.473… the best part is that they have yet to release the device! Rumours are floating around that we could see this as early as February 2nd or [...]

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TELUS Motorola Milestone promo material surfaces

The Motorola Milestone is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated devices that will be coming to Canada this year. To date their has been several rumoured launch dates and it looks like we are getting a bit closer… still no confirmed date. We received a couple pics from the upcoming Best Buy Mobile Buyer’s Guide [...]

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Virgin introduces new Smartphone plans that cap off at $100/month

With the new iPhone and BlackBerry devices available at Virgin you’ll also find new Smartphone plans. So make sure you read all the fine print before you sign up so you know exactly what you’re getting into. You’ll see below a pic of the old plans plus the new offerings. When it comes to Smartphones [...]

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Virgin launches new HSPA network, iPhone now available!

In what is turning out to be one of the most interesting launches of a “new network”, Virgin Mobile Canada has officially started to sell all their new devices. The reason we say it’s interesting is because we received an invite to attend the big launch party bash on Tuesday, February 2nd… which led us [...]