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WIND Ottawa launch pushed back “about two weeks or so”

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ February 25, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

WIND Mobile is really excited to be officially launching in Edmonton today, they will now have more coverage for their customers who can use the “Home Zone” to call across Canada.
When it comes to their anticipated Ottawa launch date, we were hearing rumblings of a March 25th date so we reached out to Chris Robbins, [...]

WIND officially launching in Edmonton February 25th

By John Connors ⋅ February 24, 2010 ⋅ 10 comments

For all those located in Edmonton and are looking to switch to Wind Mobile… good news has blown your way as they will officially launch tomorrow at 10:30am. In the official release today it stated “WIND Mobile, Canada’s newest national wireless provider, will host a press conference to launch their mobile service to the Edmonton [...]

WIND on planned network outage: “we’ll need to shut it down for a while”

By Rob Avison ⋅ February 23, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

Graham Kingma, Head of Call Centre Operations at Wind Mobile has informed WIND Mobile customers in GTA and Calgary that a planned network outage to make the network better. This outage will happen between 1:00am to 3:00am on Wednesday morning.
Kingma states “Hey everyone. WIND customers in the GTA, Calgary and the surrounding areas may experience [...]

WIND Mobile hires “ninja engineers from the competitors”

By Rob Avison ⋅ February 19, 2010 ⋅ One comment

WIND Mobile launched back in December in Toronto and Calgary and plan to offer their service in Ottawa and Edmonton by the end of February. They have hired well over 700 people and in an article in the Globe CEO Ken Campbell states “We have hired some ninja engineers from the competitors … I know [...]

Nokia updates N900 specs with “Canadian” language

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ February 17, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments

Back in January Graham Kingma, Head of Call Centre Operations at Wind Mobile wrote on the company blog that “the N900 and iPhone are hot topics within the community and other forums…and at WIND as well: I’m excited about these too! We obviously want to provide you with the phones that you want… As we [...]

Wind Mobile joins the “Wholesale Applications Community”

By Rob Avison ⋅ February 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

WIND Mobile is the only Canadian carrier and one of 24 around the world that have joined to be a part of the “Wholesale Applications Community”. The purpose is for them to work with developers and make it simpler to create and distribute their apps regardless of carrier or device.
According to the release and the [...]

WIND enables US roaming, says tethering is coming

By Rob Avison ⋅ February 13, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

For those who are with WIND there is some good news as they given a small update, but big advances when it comes to their services. They state that one of their cell sites in Whistler is ready and they turned it on. Perfect timing for those experiencing the Olympics. Wind says “in advance of [...]

WIND claims their plans save you $2,193 over 3-years

By John Connors ⋅ February 10, 2010 ⋅ 13 comments

WIND is gearing up to go live in Edmonton and Ottawa by the end of this month (then Vancouver). They are already active in both Toronto and Calgary with well over 12,000 subscribers. It’s also well known that they have a goal of attracting 1.5 million subscribers within 3-years. Wind has made public a rate [...]

Wind continues to grow GTA and Calgary… prepping for Ottawa and Edmonton

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ February 8, 2010 ⋅ One comment

WIND continues to build out their network by putting more cell tower sites up. As they noted a couple weeks ago they are focusing in on the GTA and Calgary areas by expanding the Home Zone reach. Chris Robbins, CCO posted a note on the company blog that stated “While we continue to build out [...]

Globalive brings on investment banks to expand WIND Mobile

By Rob Avison ⋅ February 2, 2010 ⋅ 10 comments

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 WIND [...]

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