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The CBC is reporting that Shaw has cancelled its plans for a nationwide cellular network, so the hopes of another new entrant into the Canadian wireless market are dashed. Citing $1B in capital expenditures and difficulty in competing with the incumbents, Shaw will forego its plans, and may decide to sell its wireless spectrum to [...]

Rumours abound that the new iPhone 5 (or 4S, depending on who you listen to) will have a unified baseband which will work on Sprint and T-Mobile’s networks in the US. I try to stay away from regurgitating rumours, but this has interesting implications for Canada. Sprint runs a WiMax 4G network which has very [...]

With AT&T planning on using T-Mobile’s AWS network to build out an LTE network, North America will have a 130+ million subscriber mobile operator with an next-generation network operating on the 1700 MHz AWS band. This is potentially great news for Wind and Mobilicity. Most previous talk about LTE/4G has centered around the 700 MHz [...]

I picked up on an article over at ArsTechnica which references a Cisco report on mobile data usage (World Mobile Data Traffic to Explode By Factor of 26 by 2015). The Cisco report itself (cisco.com [pdf]) has a lot of interesting data and predictions in it. The ArsTechnica article focused mainly on the growth of [...]

The boy genius report has some leaked photos of the Samsung Nexus S, and claims that it may be shipping with the ability to work on T-Mobile’s 3G-AWS spectrum. If this is the case, then it may be coming to Canada through Wind and Mobilicity in the near future too. The new entrants can offer [...]

The Globe and Mail is carrying the story that more Canadian wireless spectrum is going to be auctioned off. It will come in two bands. The 700 MHz band is becoming available due to the switch from analogue to digital TV in August 2011, and a second block of spectrum around 2500 MHz will also [...]

This is a personal note: My phone contract is now up, and I still don’t know who I’m going with… Hmmm.

Today, Google announced via it’s Nexus One site that they will be offering an unlocked version of the phone which will work with Rogers’ network here in Canada. The Globe and Mail has reported that the phone will also work with Wind Mobile, although as of yet there isn’t any information from Wind on this. [...]

There have been a couple of stories lately by The Globe and Mail which paint a picture of coming deregulation of the Canadian wireless industry. Conservative Industry Minister Tony Clement has said that the strict Canadian ownership rules imposed by the CRTC on wireless companies in Canada will be “relaxed” in the near future. What [...]

The Globe and Mail has an article up outlining the basic idea of VOIP for the masses. It’s pretty accurate so I thought I’d post the link in case anyone had any questions about the service that are unanswered.