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Update: Be sure to vote in our Wind data plan poll. I decided to see just how Wind Mobile’s new offerings stacked up against the competition so I spent some time and did a rate comparison. I compared the 4 companies across two metrics: The power user who wants to really use their device, and [...]

Well today is launch day for Wind Mobile in Canada and they sure made a splash. Here are the highlights: All phones sold at cost $5 unlimited text add-on No contracts/911 fees/start up fees/system access fees as expected Same pricing for pre-paid and post-paid plans Unlimited wind-to-wind calling All plans to have caller-id/missed call alerts/etc [...]

So Wind Mobile is going live this Wednesday according to the CBC. What great news for us Canadians, finally some competition in the market. Here are some thoughts on Wind, the Canadian mobile telecommunications industry, and what Wind has to do to be successful.

theboygeniusreport has some information on the plans to be offered by Wind Mobile when they start operations here. Some look pretty fantastic. Hopefully they allow a phone to be registered with only the unlimited data plan for $35. VOICE PLANS Chat: $15 100 Province-wide minutes Unlimited WIND to WIND calling (Canada-wide) Unlimited incoming SMS / [...]

Industry minister Tony Clement has overruled the CRTC decision to bar Globalive from operating in Canada as Wind Mobile. This means some more competition in the Canadian market, which should prove to be a good thing. Updated with a globeandmail.comarticle. According to Globalive chairman Anthony Lacavera, the company could begin operations in Toronto and Calgary [...]

Rumours of a google phone began to surface a few days ago, and have since been “confirmed” by a number of sites calling it a “certainty”. Reportedly due out early next year, the device will come with a new version of Google’s Android OS, and will be directly controlled by google. This seems to make [...]

Story @ financialpost Competition in the cellular phone market is always good and is why I have included this story. A good option for VOIP users could be to get an iPhone on a “cheap” minutes plan (ideally pay-as-you-go), and get a good data add-on. One could then use Fring/Skype or some other VOIP service [...]

The googlevoice blog has announced that google voice is offering an add-on google voice service for your existing number. For now it looks to be limited to the google voicemail service, but this is still great news. For those of you lucky enough to have a 403 number: Please, if you have a 403 phone [...]

The Washington Post is reporting that AT&T may allow VOIP apps such as Google Voice and Skype to operate on their networks, including on devices such as the iPhone. This could hopefully open up the door to the (re)introduction of some appstore apps and features which would permit the use of non-cellular voice communication on [...]

Hurray! The Globe and Mail has broken the story that Bell and Telus will be able to offer the iPhone starting net month, eliminating Rogers’ monopoly on the device in Canada. We can probably look forward to some lower prices on data plans, and with the inclusion of several small new telcos opening shop in [...]