It’s launch day in Kitchener-Waterloo. Our network and store rollout teams have been literally building towards this day for some time, and our whole organization is excited to bring K-W residents their first real alternative to the incumbent telco oligopoly in more than a decade.
It’s our sixth WIND Zone (see initial coverage here) and we’re going to keep building it out, with sites planned for Cambridge and Guelph in the coming weeks. And our network isn’t just getting bigger – it’s also getting better as we start rolling out network upgrades to 4G data speeds (HSPA+ or up to 21.1 Mbps). We’re aggressively expanding and enhancing for the long haul – our new KW WIND Zone is the latest step in delivering on our commitment to Canadians to bring wireless change by offering excellent, innovative service at affordable prices. We cut the ribbon this morning at the Fairview Park Mall location in Kitchener, and doors will be opening soon at the Shops at Waterloo, Stanley Park and Highland & Westmount.
For our launch in Kitchener-Waterloo, we’re also introducing ourselves to the community by helping to facilitate more positive change through the WINDthanks KW grant to Mosaic Counseling & Family Services’ Mobile Education Program at Pathways to Education. Pathways has made a major impact on the KW community, helping hundreds of kids and bringing us closer to being a “graduation nation”, and their efforts on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook made a major impression on us here at WIND.
We want to truly thank everyone who contributed a suggestion or chimed in to support a cause. With more than 50 community improvement causes suggested and more than 1,000 people voicing support for their favourite community projects, to say it was hard to make a decision would be a major understatement. We have so much respect for the worthy causes suggested and look forward to following their efforts in the future. We encourage everyone in our online community, and particularly people in the KW area, to check out some of the organizations which were suggested for the grant: you can see them here.
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Can you please add service to Abbotsford, BC?
Its cheaper to fly from Abbotsford International Airport (via WestJet) than Vancouver International Airport.
There is a University in Abbotsford: University of the Fraser Valley (UFV).
I was a little upset about the launch myself, waited 5 hours to find out that my credit is good enough to finance a car or morgage a house, but I’m too risky to get a tab for $300, and postpaid. If you don’t trust me, imprint my CC and bill me if I don’t pay a bill.
I’m set with an AWS phone, but my wife’s isn’t compatible. Knowing that the tab is there, is a deterent from me paying for a handset outright. I can’t justfiy the cost for a new one either, since she doesn’t need an upgrade to stay at Fido, and Wind will only save $6 a month. It would take 2 years to see the savings!
Hey Colin,
I was really embarrassed to go through the exact same thing; did credit check with Rogers the day before and was fine; have two credit cards a house, a line of credit etc… but apparently couldn’t do pay after service!
Nonetheless, really happy about the pricing. I signed up!
*test without url link*
Can someone who has an Android Phone with GPS, install Coverage Mapper and drive around the RED (no signal) places in Lower Mainland, BC.
I think the Coverage Mapper data is outdated?
And the Official Wind Mobile Coverage is NOT accurate. (but more accurate than Mobilicity)
Oh and if you see a Yellow colored road where no one has driven, please drive there, with the coverage mapper on if you can.
Wind Mobile should release their driving results like how Coverage Mapper does.
MobiliCity is selling Google Nexus S for just $349.99.
Why Wind are you charging $500 for the same phone?
I want to buy using WindTab or WindTab+ online.
You really want me to go in store, and wait 30 minutes in a line up?
That’s because mobilicity requires you to be on a contract to get the Nexus S for that cheap. Read the fine print: Without a contract, it’s still $500 at mobilicity.
I visited a friend in Waterloo yesterday (aug 15th) and was pleasantly surprised to see I was in a Wind zone. I’ll be sure to tell all my friends in KW about Wind.
Teo, if you want to buy using WINDtab, you only pay $99 for the Nexus S. That’s $250 less than Mobilicity.
Regards.
But if you need to move to a city that in not in Wind Zone say probably after 6 months or if you want to keep your options open after 6 months, then buying Google Nexus S from Wind Mobile’s Wind Tab is a rip-off. Then you are on the hook for an extra $150.
I don’t get your issue. If you are going to be out of the Wind zones in 6 months, don’t buy a Wind phone. Seems simple enough.
Congratulations on another milestone WIND!
With every expansion we, your customers, become more and more pleased!
The event was the most unorganized and poorly communicated event I have ever been to.
WIND Mobile you better pull up those sleeves, you have some serious work to do.
For those who don’t know, the pink slips that were handed out at the oneentrance were created among themselves, and from what I understand the staff at WIND just went along with it.
COMPLETELY UNFAIR TO EVERYBODY ELSE!!!
Can someone tell me when the Guelph store is opening? I really really want WIND before school starts. WIND is just too amazing to pass up.
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