Top Canadian mobile stories from the past week

Every week we bring you the latest in Canadian mobile news. Listed below is a quick overview of the top stories from the past seven days.

• Samsung’s latest commercial suggests iPhone users should grow up [Read here]
• OnePlus 5T will be available for purchase starting November 21 [Read here]
• Apple releases support page on how to prevent screen burn-in on the iPhone X [Read here]
• Alcatel A50 and its SnapBak covers are now available at Virgin Mobile [Read here]
• CIBC launches Remi, a new digital assistant that helps clients send global money transfers [Read here]
• British Columbia to increase distracted driving fines by March 1, 2018 [Read here]
• Canadians are using an average of 1.2GB of data per month on wireless devices [Read here]
• Telus reports $3.4 billion revenue in Q3 2017 earnings report [Read here]
• CRTC releases 2017 communications monitoring report for broadcast content [Read here]
• Vidéotron announces it now has one million mobile customers [Read here]
• Government of Ontario opens OSAP online portal for 2018-2019 school year [Read here]
• Twitter’s expanded 280 character limit is rolling out to all users [Read here]
• Freedom is enabling LTE for customers with grandfathered 3G plans [Read here]
• Amazon launches Fire TV Stick Basic Edition in Canada [Read here]
• Canada’s Competition Bureau seeks feedback on FinTech sector report [Read here]
• Bell announces plans to acquire AlarmForce [Read here]
• Apple awarded $120 million from Samsung in long-running ‘slide-to-unlock’ patent battle [Read here]