Globalive to launch Canadian wireless services as WIND
Globalive Wireless Management Corp., one of the big winners of last years Canadian AWS auction and overall trash talker towards Bell, Rogers and TELUS, has announced that it will offer its HSPA services in the Canadian marketplace as WIND. If the name sounds familiar, WIND is already a successful brand in Europe — particularly in Italy (where it was founded) and Greece — and its Canadian brand controllers are hoping to “not only leverage WIND’s challenger status, but also its operational intelligence and experience.” Canadians can expect to see WIND launch in key markets later this year with general availability (excluding Québec) in 2010. In the distant future, WIND will be making the transition from HSPA to LTE, although a time line for the move has not been made public.
Great to hear, Canadians have been getting screwed for awhile now. More competition is a good thing.
It is about time we got some more competition here in Canad.
BUY THEM OUT
NOM NOM NOM NOM!!
excluding quebec ! we need competition here too !!
god I was excited about this for a short time
The website is http://www.windmobile.ca/
And us Quebeckers will continue to be screwed. Videotron will have shit prices if you won’t get their cell service bundlded. yay indeed…
Adi
robbers be afraid be very afraid
Yep, you’ve linked the wrong website! It should be http://www.windmobile.ca
is this the new ROGERS WIRELESS ?
Launch, and I will be on board. I have had enough of Rogers.
robbers is on a roll for hyper inflation frenzy
check below
http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1559402
http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1557860
HSPA is CDMA, right? Why, oh why, can’t we get some GSM competition?
With every new iPhone upgrade I soul-search on whether I should re-up my contract with Robbers in the vain hope someone else will provide GSM. So far I’ve figured the chances within 3 years are slim.
HSPA is W-CDMA which is a GSM standard. Unfortunately they’ll only be operating on the 1700MHz bandwidth so you’ll need a phone that supports it.
And Wind is a much better name. WFT was a Globalive anyways.
Very catchy, first ‘Cloud’, now ‘Wind’. When is ‘Storm’ coming?
Yep, exactly, Videotron will ask for:
crazy prices + those unjustified access fees + 911 + a relative or a leg + 5 bundled service or else it’s the square of the price!
I was so hoping to switch to the AWS frequencies, but now …
Blame Quebec. WindMobile wanted the Spectrum space in Quebec but Quebecor bought the rights for more than Wind paid for the rest of the country.