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Wireless Industry Canada

Loblaws Promises 'Protection' Against Cellphone 'Bill Shock'

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 06.19.2013 | Canada Business

With the country’s small mobile players in disarray and consumers frustrated with the big telecom companies, Loblaws sees an opportunity to establis...

SOLD

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.06.2013 | Canada Business

Public Mobile has backing from a private equity firm with ties to Canada's wealthiest family and a desire to become Canada's fourth-largest carrier fo...

Industry Group: Canadians Willing To Pay Much More For Wireless

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 06.04.2013 | Canada Business

HuffPost Canada readers got what they most wanted from the CRTC Monday — an effective end to three-year cellphone contracts, in the form of an early...

Canadian Wireless Lobby Seeks Clarity

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.02.2013 | Canada Business

MONTREAL - Consumers and the wireless industry need certainty on the rules for buying struggling, new cellphone carriers, the head of a telecom indust...

Sunny Freeman

ONE LESS OPTION FOR WIRELESS

HuffingtonPost.com | Sunny Freeman | Posted 05.16.2013 | Canada Business

Telus says it has a $380-million deal to buy Mobilicity after it was approached by the indebted small telecom player looking for relief from its finan...

Canadians Seeing Huge Cellphone Bill Hikes: Report

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada Business

Canadians saw their cellphone bills jump by an average of more than 13 per cent in the past year, according to a survey from J.D. Power & Associates. ...

Why Your Cell Phone Service May Go From Bad To Worse

Lindsey Pinto | Posted 06.15.2013 | Canada Business
Lindsey Pinto

The Big Three cell phone providers now have even more room to raise prices and maintain disrespectful customer service, as the check on the market provided by new entrants diminishes. This is why Canadians pay some of the highest prices for mobile phone service in the industrialized world.

Why Canadians Are Doing Less Talking On The Phone

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.19.2013 | Canada Business

MONTREAL - Here's my cell number. Call me, maybe?Or maybe not. Cellphone users are doing less calling as they buy more smartphones and use the device ...

Why Canadians Are Afraid To Roam

CP | Posted 12.10.2012 | Canada Business

Almost 90 per cent of consumers want their wireless carriers to halt their data use abroad when they've spent a maximum of $50 on international data r...

Got A Stolen Smartphone? You May Want To Think Twice

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.08.2013 | Canada Business

Canada's wireless carriers are targeting smartphone theft by setting up a database that will blacklist lost or stolen phones to prevent them from bein...

Here's The One Thing Canadians Are Doing Less Of On Their Cellphones

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.04.2012 | Canada Business

MONTREAL - Cellphone users are doing less talking and more texting, emailing and Internet surfing on their devices, habits that are being driven by th...

Tories Open Doors To Greater Cellphone Competition

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.14.2012 | Canada Business

RUSSELL, Ont. - Ottawa moved Wednesday to level the wireless playing field by placing limits on the coming wireless spectrum auction and lifting forei...

Shaw Abandons Plans For Cellphone Business

CP | Sunny Freeman, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.01.2011 | Canada Business

Shaw Communications has pulled the plug on plans to launch a wireless phone service, favouring instead a less risky venture into Wi-Fi services — a ...