Wireless startup Wind Mobile began offering service Thursday in Edmonton, joining Calgary and Toronto since the company's December launch. Service will soon be extended to Vancouver and Ottawa. Initially, there are six Wind sales outlets in the Alberta capital, with a seventh to be added next month.
“When it comes to wireless, Canadians want value, control, and simplicity,” Wind CEO Ken Campbell said in a news release. “We've heard loud and clear that people want a mobile experience that is free of contracts, system access fees, high prices, poor service, limited technology, and complicated billing, and we have built our offering to deliver on just that.”
Wind Mobile's parent, Globalive Wireless Management Corp., spent $442 million in 2008 buying spectrum covering most of the country except southern Quebec and Nova Scotia. It expects to spend hundreds of millions more to build a national network. So far it has not said when service will start in Winnipeg, Regina, St. John's or Charlottetown.
fund with telecom experience. In December, when the commission started its review, it said in a letter that Public Mobile's ownership structure is “complex”, but “could hold precedential value for the industry.”