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On The Move

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Looks like the WIND Mobile has made another enemy, this time from CEO of Public Mobile, Alek Krstajic who recently filed an application with the Federal government of Canada against the December 2009 decision to allow WIND Mobile to launch. Like the CRTC who turned down WIND, stating it didn’t mean the Canadian ownership regulations.

Krstajic added, “We believe Cabinet’s decision is unfair to other wireless carriers, especially new entrants like Public Mobile that have played by the rules and secured substantial Canadian investment. Furthermore, while we respect the government’s authority we believe what it has done amounts to a change in law, and only Parliament can change Canadian law.”

More drama for the WIND Mobile camp, but it isn’t stopping them from moving forward with their plans for growth.

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So the intertubes have been all a buzz in the last 24 hour over Amazon’s Kindle DX, the baby brother to the Amazon Kindle being available internationally.  The 9.7″ screen can hold up to 3,500 books, documents or periodicals and it is available for pre-order in Canada, but there still is no Canadian wireless provider who can provide service for the device.  Wait a minute, this sounds very familiar….

I’m not quite sure what the hold up is with the carriers, Bell, Rogers, TELUS, WIND Mobile, can someone make the Kindle or Kindle DX available for Canadian consumers?

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The WIND Mobile crew didn’t slow down last week, opening their flag ship store in downtown Toronto, the company also launched in Calgary on Friday.

WIND Mobile’s service plan:

• No activation fees
• No contracts on any services
• No system access fees
• No fees for Enhanced 911 services
• Never a charge for an incoming text
• No charge for incoming long distance calls
• No penalties for changing or cancelling a plan
• Unlimited WIND to WIND calling across the country
• Unlimited province-wide calling from a WIND Home Zone
• All plans include caller ID, missed call alerts, call waiting, call hold, call forwarding, unlimited conference calling – all at no extra charge

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Profectio – latin for “the source” brings together Canada’s Connected Community

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Facebook added a new feature to help celebrate and share your anniversaries with your friends and family.  Your anniversary will be able to be visible on your profile and the profile of your significant other. They have also added a new feature that will allow you to respond to message via email; simply click reply with your message and boom. Facebook has also begun testing their own URL shortening servic

Google launch a cool new free tool that will help you identify how much of your website will be visible in a browser, http://browsersize.googlelabs.com. Google has also updated the Google Toolbar and has also included the Google URL Shortener.

All those rumours about a Google phone are true, Google is coming out with the Google Nexus One, lots of cool feature and I’m sure it will be compared to the Apple iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry. The Google Android app store has hit 20,000 apps in its directory, not bad for less than a year old.

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Twitter got hit with a DNS (Domain Name System) attack last week which brought the service down to its knees and millions around the world force to chat about life elsewhere.

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I don’t want to think about how cold it was outside as over 150 employees, media and other Torontoians gathered to be part of Canadian history as WIND Mobile held their official launch event.  We were on hand to capture the moments for you, here is one of the videos we shot earlier this morning.

Anthony Lacavera and Ken Campbell were both on hand to share their excitement and thoughts on what this day means to the company and potential customers across Canada.

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As part of the launch event, WIND Mobile unveiled a statue (video above) at just outside their first store at Queens Quay in downtown Toronto.
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They also welcome their first customer, Chris to the network (video above).  We’ll be back later with more video coverage of the launch event.

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WIND Mobile is certainly making its share of headlines lately. Last week we reported that they finally got the green light to launch in Canada and become the forth wireless carrier. Yesterday we reported a strategic partnership with Blockbuster, that would allow the wireless carrier to sell their service through select Blockbuster retail stores in Calgary and Toronto.

There has been some buzz that the launch of WIND Mobile will occur tomorrow morning and they have also just confirmed they will be offering the Blackberry 9700 smartphone from Research In Motion.

“For our pending launch, we are delighted to confirm that the BlackBerry® Bold 9700 will be available to WIND Mobile customers,” said Ken Campbell, CEO of WIND Mobile. “This is a state-of-art 3G smartphone from one of the world’s leaders in wireless innovation. And our unique value proposition is to offer Canadians simplicity, control and value with our BlackBerry® service plans.”

Tomorrow WIND Mobile could be making history in the Canadian telecommunications industry.

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Whether they build it themselves or borrow, WIND Mobile is going to launch and launch very soon as CEO Ken Campbell said in a conference call Friday morning. The company has just announced a new partnership with Blockbuster Canada that will give them a retail presence in 13 locations across Ontario and Ontario.

“This is a win-win-win for our two companies but most of all, for prospective customers,” said Ken Campbell, CEO of WIND Mobile. “We’re focused on creating an excellent customer experience and we’ll be doing that directly in 16 Canadian locations of Blockbuster – a leader in its field.”

Calgary Blockbuster stores:

7740 18th St E, Calgary
380 Canyon Meadows Dr SE, Calgary
62 Saddletowne Cir NE, Calgary

GTA Blockbuster stores:

1692 Lakeshore Rd West, Mississauga
1151 Dundas St W, Mississauga
320 Main St N Unit 16, Brampton
1289 Marlborough Crt, Oakville
2432 Eglinton Ave E, Toronto
2940 Finch Ave E, Toronto
837 Danforth Ave, Toronto
5825 Yonge St, Toronto
75 Hanna Avenue, Toronto
125 The Queensway, Toronto
1615 Dundas St E, Whitby
310 Harwood Ave N, Ajax
1360 Kingston Rd, Pickering

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Profectio – latin for “the source” brings together Canada’s Connected Community

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Just got off a conference call where Anthony Lacavera, Chairman, Globalive and WIND Mobile Ken Campbell, CEO, WIND Mobile shared the good news to a room full of Globalive employees, friend and media.   Now that is it official that Wind Mobile will become Canada’s 4th wireless provider the real hard work is about to begin. As Anthony said, “we now need to prove to Canadians we are a carrier they can trust.”

Wind Mobile Conference Call Notes:

Ken Campbell, CEO, WIND Mobile:

• we could be launching as early as next week
• our coverage will include 3 major Canadian citie to start, Toronto, Ottawa and Calgary
• in Ontario our coverage will go from Stoney Creek to Oshawa
• “we are about the experience, the customer experience”
• launching with several different handset & a wireless data stick
• “we won’t even charge you to call 911”
• “we will have a Blackberry, I won’t get into all the details of which phones but they tend to be smart phones, Samsung, HTC, phones that will leverage the network capabilities,”  “we will not have the iPhone,” “no Android devices”
• No System Access Fee

What differentiates Wind Mobile?

• we asked our customers what are they looking for, Canadians told us about their frustration
• we made a conscious effort to go back to the basics, we have a great calling center in Mississauga, we have looked at how customers buy a phone, made it simple and as easy as possible

Anthony Lacavera, Chairman, Globalive:

• “we are the fist real competition in a decade to the market”
• “we are going to change the structure of the industry in Canada”

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