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CRTC starts ownership review of Dave Wireless (Mobilicity)

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ March 9, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments

Mobilicity (formally Dave Wireless) invested $243.1-million for 10 licenses during the Canadian Wireless Spectrum Auction and will be launching their new wireless service first in Toronto this Spring, then followed by Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa.
Leading Mobilicity is famed entrepreneur John Bitove and they are financed by ING with $125 million and $75 million from [...]

Mobilicity hires Joe Prodan as CFO

By Rob Avison ⋅ March 3, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Mobilicity, formally known as Dave Wireless, has announced that Joe Prodan is part of the stellar cast of executives and will take on the role as Chief Financial Officer. Prodan was previously VP of Finance at SIRIUS Canada and Director of Bell ExpressVu’s finance department.
Dave Dobbin, president and CEO of Mobilicity said “Joe brings tremendous [...]

Mobilicity brand agency says “consumers had a say in co-creating it”

By John Connors ⋅ February 25, 2010 ⋅ 11 comments

Mobilicity (formally Dave Wireless) announced their new go-to-market name on February 2nd. On that date we caught up with VP of Marketing Sara Moore and she stated “we think there was a great opportunity and remains a great opportunity for a mobile operator to bring simplicity to the wireless marketplace… and that’s why we love [...]

Video Interview with new wireless carrier Mobilicity

By Ian Hardy ⋅ February 2, 2010 ⋅ 13 comments

After the introduction of the new brand name for Dave Wireless… they now officially call themselves “Mobilicity” I caught up with Chairman John Bitove, President Dave Dobbin and Vice President of Marketing Sara Moore for a few minutes to talk about the new direction.
Last last week we wrote about the possibility of Dave becoming Fresh [...]

Virgin officially announces HSPA+ network with models

By John Connors ⋅ February 2, 2010 ⋅ 7 comments

Virgin already went live with their new HSPA+ network on Friday, but today they made it official with a launch party that had Victoria Secret models. Not to shabby! Looks good to be a member of Virgin… just remember that Bell owns Virgin so you’re piggy backing on their network.
Robert Blumenthal, President, Virgin Mobile Canada [...]

Dave Wireless chooses “Mobilicity” as brand name

By Ian Hardy ⋅ February 2, 2010 ⋅ 26 comments

Dave Wireless (Data Audio & Visual Enterprises Inc) invested $243.1-million for 10 licenses during the Canadian Wireless Spectrum Auction and will be launching their new wireless service in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa.
They have been relatively quiet as they only given out updates with roaming partners, network build-out partners and bold stated that “Competition [...]

BlackBerry Pearl 9100 headed to Wind & Dave Wireless?

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ February 2, 2010 ⋅ One comment

It turns out that the heavily leaked BlackBerry Pearl 9100 has been caught on camera again, this time it shows that the new device works on the 1700mHz bands. Basically showing this could work on either WIND Mobile or Dave Wireless (soon to be renamed).
In the end I’m sure all carriers will get a version [...]

Dave Wireless? Fresh Wireless… how about “Mobilicity”?

By John Connors ⋅ January 29, 2010 ⋅ 10 comments

With new entrant Dave Wireless announcing today that they’ll officially be announcing their new brand name on Tuesday, February 2nd… we heard yesterday that a possible name if Fresh Wireless, but a new name has now surfaced that D.A.V.E. (Data Audio & Visual Enterprises Inc) has registered.
How do you like “Mobilicity”? If you check out [...]

Is Dave Wireless going to be called “Fresh Wireless”?

By John Connors ⋅ January 28, 2010 ⋅ 29 comments

Since posting this article Dave Wireless has sent out a release stating on Tuesday, February 2nd will be the “unveiling of Data & Audio Visual Enterprises Wireless Inc.’s (DAVE Wireless) brand name and logo as the new wireless carrier gears up to launch.”
There has been much speculation about new entrant Dave Wireless about their highly [...]

Any thoughts on the new name Dave Wireless will choose?

By Ian Hardy ⋅ January 10, 2010 ⋅ 36 comments

We get numerous e-mails sent to us about Dave Wireless (Data & Audio Visual Enterprises Wireless Inc.)… specifically about their anticipated launch date or the possible name they’ll go with when they actually do enter the market.
DAVE Wireless invested $243.1-million for 10 licenses during the Canadian Wireless Spectrum Auction and what we know about is [...]

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