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This is quite big news. Tony Lacavera, Chariman of Globalive, the company which owns the Wind Mobile brand, announced today on windmobile.ca that Wind Telecom will be bought by Russian telecom company VimpelCom for $6 billion. Lacavera had this to say: “Earlier today, the shareholders of Russian mobile telephone operator VimpelCom voted in support of [...]

Engadget has an exclusive hands-on preview of the new Google Nexus One phone up on their site. It’s definitely worth a read, with quite a few pictures and even a quick intro video to the phone in the initial article. They do promise a full review up soon. The most interesting part of the review [...]

Blogs, forums, people on the street, people on the Wind website. Generally they are all saying the same thing: The Wind plans are great, but the one complaint is the lack of a cheaper data plan. Right now if you want a data plan with Wind you have to go for the $35 unlimited data [...]

Well, Wind Mobile is here, and while people seem generally excited about their plans and service so far, the phone selection leaves a little bit to be desired. So what really is available, what is coming, and what about the iPhone?

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 [...]