If you’ve been keeping up with the story, Rogers’s HTC Magic customers earlier this week got notice that they will be getting an upgrade to Android 2.1 sometime this year. However, HTC Dream customers would not get an upgrade past Android 1.5. This obviously sparked some outrage, but honestly, we didn’t expect the outrage to [...]
The CBC reported today that the decision to allow Globalive (owner of the WIND brand) to operate in canada is being challenged. If you recall, back in December, Canada’s Industry Minister, Tony Clement, overruled a previous CRTC decision which blocked Globalive from operating cellphone service in Canada, allowing them to continue with their WIND mobile [...]
In an expected move, Bell announced that it will start selling Bell and Virgin Mobile (which it acquired earlier this year) products in The Source retail stores. Bell acquired The Source earlier this year as well. This comes at the heels of a contract between Rogers and The Source that ended this month. Now, The [...]
It seems that iPhone prices in france have significantly dropped due to increased competition now that the Orange lost exclusivity due to a French court decision. I’ll leave the French court decision on competition to my business blog, but I will discuss the price drop subject. I find it curious that the loss of exclusivity [...]
So WIND Mobile started doing their thing officially last Thursday when they announced their plans and pricing details. Experts expected them to Wow everyone and they did. You can check out their voice plans, data plans and more on their website. The Good So what’s so good. Well, if you live in Toronto or Calgary, then [...]
To continue the madness of the Canadian Wireless Carrier Ad Wars that I reported on earlier, my prediction almost came true. Rogers has now sued Bell for their wireless network claims. Rogers is stating that Bell does not have the customer base or data to backup their claims of being fastest and most reliable network. [...]
As a follow-up to our “I’m faster than you” posting, there has been some progress in the Telus vs. Rogers face-off. In a somewhat surprise decision, Telus was granted a temporary injunction today that could eventually force rogers to stop their current campaign strategy. Rogers now admits that, with Telus’ new 21Mbps HSPA network, they [...]
It appears Telus is not happy about Rogers’ advertisement claims that it’s Canada’s fastest and most reliable network. In court filings, Telus claims that since their new HSPA network went live earlier this month that Rogers is no longer faster nor more reliable and as such needs to stop their false advertisements. They even asked [...]
I’m sure you’ve seen the barrage of commercials asking you to make noise for or against the Local TV Tax issue that is currently under debate in canada. Today is the day that the hearings begin on this issue. Since this issue may end up effecting your pocket, it may be worthwhile taking a look [...]
So, Bell is almost rolling out it’s own GSM based network. According to BGR, they are rolling out the HSPA network sometime next month. Telus is probably going to follow suit as well. And the masses are now rejoicing. But seriously, what will this really mean to the Canadian mobile market and mobile users. Well [...]