Comments on: Canadian Government Overturns CRTC, Admits Globalive’s Wind Mobile to Canadian Mobile Phone Marketplace http://stopthecap.com/2009/12/19/canadian-government-overturns-crtc-admits-globalives-wind-mobile-to-canadian-mobile-phone-marketplace/ Promoting Better Broadband, Fighting Data Caps, Usage-Based Billing, & Other Internet Overcharging Schemes Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:45:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1-alpha-15359 By: Trusted Creation http://stopthecap.com/2009/12/19/canadian-government-overturns-crtc-admits-globalives-wind-mobile-to-canadian-mobile-phone-marketplace/comment-page-1/#comment-8247 Trusted Creation Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:18:34 +0000 http://stopthecap.com/?p=6606#comment-8247 Wind mobile is great except for their phone selection... so i made a list of phones that are compatible with wind mobile and have the 1700 mhz band.. http://unlockingabc.blogspot.com/2010/01/wind-mobile-compatible-phones.html Wind mobile is great except for their phone selection… so i made a list of phones that are compatible with wind mobile and have the 1700 mhz band..

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]]> By: Ian L http://stopthecap.com/2009/12/19/canadian-government-overturns-crtc-admits-globalives-wind-mobile-to-canadian-mobile-phone-marketplace/comment-page-1/#comment-8076 Ian L Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:04:50 +0000 http://stopthecap.com/?p=6606#comment-8076 For what it's worth, while it's not hypocritical for Telus, Bell and Rogers to cry foul on 81% of Globalive's funding coming from abroad, it's just plain dumb to turn away capital that doesn't involve selling your soul to an outside entity and will result in more jobs, competition, etc. in the marketplace. If Wind Mobile's support was handled by Orascom it'd be a different deal but that isn't the case here. For what it’s worth, while it’s not hypocritical for Telus, Bell and Rogers to cry foul on 81% of Globalive’s funding coming from abroad, it’s just plain dumb to turn away capital that doesn’t involve selling your soul to an outside entity and will result in more jobs, competition, etc. in the marketplace. If Wind Mobile’s support was handled by Orascom it’d be a different deal but that isn’t the case here.

]]> By: Ian L http://stopthecap.com/2009/12/19/canadian-government-overturns-crtc-admits-globalives-wind-mobile-to-canadian-mobile-phone-marketplace/comment-page-1/#comment-8074 Ian L Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:54:31 +0000 http://stopthecap.com/?p=6606#comment-8074 Seems like Wind is doing everything right, though does anyone else feel like this is a redo of Fido, before it was purchased by Rogers? There are a few things that Wind doesn't have right now in addition to nationwide coverage. First, their data network tops out at 7.2 Mbps versus Rogers', Bell's and Telus's new HSPA+ networks (probably easy to remedy though). Second, they don't have the iPhone, something Bell, Telus and Roges have, though apparently none of those carriers have faith in that device to keep their customer base intact. Then again, when you're charging for long distance and Wind isn't, when you're charging for incoming texts and Wind isn't, when you're wanting $80 for 5GB MBB and Wind wants $55, and when you charge tons of extra fees and Wind doesn't...it sounds like Wind wins by having a better product. Whoda thunk? Also, for what it's worth, my town of roughly 10,000 is serviced by SEVEN cellular carriers. The four nationals, three of which have 3G here, plus CricKet (sorta-national, also with 3G), plus a regional unlimited carrier with a high-capacity CDMA 1x network and bargain-basement prices, plus a hometown carrier that has a GSM network, a legacy CDMA network in our area, is owned by a telephone cooperative a ways north of us and offers BlackBerry-based family plans that nobody can touch. Over the years, competition in every area of wireless has grown for us, not shrunk...AT&T bought CellularOne and thus brought their service here, Pocket Communications didn't exist four years ago, and Sprint used to only be good in town. If Rogers/Telus' logic was applied to wireless service in the U.S., there DEFINITELY wouldn't be enough business to go around for cellular providers, since most places have four or more carriers competing for service. lso, we'd have an outdated Voicestream rather than a progressive T-Mobile because Deutsche Telekom couldn't have come in and bought the GSM carrier several years ago... Seems like Wind is doing everything right, though does anyone else feel like this is a redo of Fido, before it was purchased by Rogers?

There are a few things that Wind doesn’t have right now in addition to nationwide coverage. First, their data network tops out at 7.2 Mbps versus Rogers’, Bell’s and Telus’s new HSPA+ networks (probably easy to remedy though). Second, they don’t have the iPhone, something Bell, Telus and Roges have, though apparently none of those carriers have faith in that device to keep their customer base intact.

Then again, when you’re charging for long distance and Wind isn’t, when you’re charging for incoming texts and Wind isn’t, when you’re wanting $80 for 5GB MBB and Wind wants $55, and when you charge tons of extra fees and Wind doesn’t…it sounds like Wind wins by having a better product. Whoda thunk?

Also, for what it’s worth, my town of roughly 10,000 is serviced by SEVEN cellular carriers. The four nationals, three of which have 3G here, plus CricKet (sorta-national, also with 3G), plus a regional unlimited carrier with a high-capacity CDMA 1x network and bargain-basement prices, plus a hometown carrier that has a GSM network, a legacy CDMA network in our area, is owned by a telephone cooperative a ways north of us and offers BlackBerry-based family plans that nobody can touch. Over the years, competition in every area of wireless has grown for us, not shrunk…AT&T bought CellularOne and thus brought their service here, Pocket Communications didn’t exist four years ago, and Sprint used to only be good in town.

If Rogers/Telus’ logic was applied to wireless service in the U.S., there DEFINITELY wouldn’t be enough business to go around for cellular providers, since most places have four or more carriers competing for service. lso, we’d have an outdated Voicestream rather than a progressive T-Mobile because Deutsche Telekom couldn’t have come in and bought the GSM carrier several years ago…

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