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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 [...]

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 CBC is reporting that one of Canada’s new mobile phone companies has just secured financing from China. In addition to raising money from shareholders, Public Mobile has secured debt financing to the tune of $350 million from the Export-Import Bank of China, and as part of the deal, is choosing China-based ZTE and it’s [...]

If there’s one thing that Wind Mobile has done consistently well, it’s take advantage of the web for communications between itself and its (potential) customers. And that continues today. In response to Mobilicity’s launch today, Globalive CEO Tony Lacavera made a post on the windmobile site. Most telling was this paragraph: With new competition emerging, [...]

Both the CBC and the Globe and Mail are carrying stories about the launch of Canada’s newest entrant into the cellular phone service industry, Mobilicity (formerly known as DAVE wireless). Similar to the first new entrant Wind Mobile, Mobilicity is offering no contract plans, something which consumers have wanted for some time. Mobilicity will be [...]