The Supreme Court’s decision made earlier this morning conclusively ends WIND’s long-running regulatory and legal battles with its competitors over its compliance with Canadian ownership rules.
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled against Public Mobile in its long-running fight against WIND and the Attorney General. Earlier today the highest court in the land denied Public Mobile leave to appeal an earlier Federal Court of Appeal decision that effectively confirmed WIND’s compliance with the Canadian ownership rules in the Telecom Act.
We’re extremely pleased with the Supreme Court’s decision, which will allow us to tie off this loose end and continue working with the best interests of Canadians firmly in mind. We are interested in fighting in the marketplace to provide Canadians with fair, transparent and competitive wireless offerings, not in fighting in courtrooms.
There are now over 400,000 happy customers who are with WIND because they choose to be, not because we’ve locked them into an onerous contract and we have continued to invest in building Canada’s third national wireless network.
We are moving full force ahead with over 490 points of distribution, the introduction of new handsets to our lineup each month and easy-to-understand plans that provide Canadians with the kind of national wireless service that they deserve.
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Not a surprising outcome at all, but it’s good to put all of this behind. Imagine where wind could have been were they not delayed by all of these court proceedings?
Anyway, it’s full speed ahead now. Stay true to your message, and be as less as big3 as possible. We’ve had enough of them.
- A happy customer for over 1 year and counting
Question is… what will happen to my cell service once Wind is not allowed to roam on Rogers network. Surely Rogers won’t allow this forever
Steve,
Roaming onto Rogers/Fido’s 2G network, is a business arrangement with Rogers they make money with it so I personally could not see any reason for it to go away.
Most of my travels are in the Wind Home coverage area, but I am thankful of the ROAMing agreement for times I am out side of the area. My Android phone automatic shuts off DATA when I am ROAMing which is great as it leaves my account balance for Phone calls.
Why do you keep spelling roaming as ROAMing? Weird. Anyway, I’m thinking of switching back to Rogers since the whole roaming thing is annoying. I’m happy that Wind is allowed to operate here nonetheless but I need my phone to work!
I dont think wind uses the rogers 2g for there roaming signal cause if they did then my phone would work at metro toronto convention centre
i used to be on the rogers network before I moved on to wind and I had full 2g signal right down to the 3 underground level on rogers but zero on wind.
Two words – Wind rocks!
as a wind customer.. I am happy with the pricing.. but unhappy with the service… constant dropped calls or calls not being completed. OR mms with more then one picture not going through or being received (or any mms from an iPhone!). OR being in my house and no service (or anywhere I am inside). truly disappointing.. cant wait to see if wind gets that new low frequency spectrum so they can get rid of this high frequency low penetration nightmare. also being limited to the wind network means we are stuck in major cities.. fido for example lets customers roam all over (and still be connected to their network) and use their phone or data with no extra fee’s. the roaming fee’s for wind using the rogers network is a joke… they should have a better partnership. and also if partnered with rogers.. why cant we use the fido network also to roam? makes sense right? after all rogers owns it all. that would give wind customers 3 yes 3 networks to utilize… OR offer a roaming package.. that has minutes for if your outside of the local area for travelers etc… this would be a HUGE innovation… but instead we are stuck with poor service in the GTA if your inside…
No need to worry my friend.When I was younger (About 1999ish) I remember when Rogers was new in town.They werre selling phones to people who didnt even have coverage in my area!Now look at Rogers..they are number 1-2 with coverage.Just dont forget every company starts out small.Wind will pick up momentum soon enough.It’s been quite a battle for them but the choice is in our hands my friend.Once Wind grows we will see the benefits.Wind Mobile is a prime example of how its our decisions in life by choicing them that makes them a big player.Eventually Canada will have the “Big Four:It’s annoying now I agree but its worth contributing and you can tell your kids/grand kids in the future that it was us,the original 400,000 customers that made and shaped and led Canada into real choice…Wouldnt you be proud top brag that to the new generations to come?Since I had them almost a year ago,they have grown so much,don’t loose faith.The big 3 want you to loose faith,but look at all the desperate attempts made by them…Kido,Solo,Fido,Virgin,Chatr,etc…They know their time is comming, so lets keep this battle going because eventually they will hit 1 million subscribers soon.I think soon enough they will make a province only plan,and once they do considering all the people out there who dont really travel out of province,this will fuel them.I remember when Rogewrs was new their stocks were only $6.00/share at the time,now look at them…They are huge, once Wind gets into the stock market,better believe they will grow more with the additional funding.I find public mobile contradictive because they say Canadians need choice but at the same time they pathetically try to take wind to court?If they truely believe in choice in Canada, they would encourage the competition at hand but they know Wind’s AWS signal is much more superior then their outdated “CDMA 2000″.And if anyone tells you how theres alot of companies out there,they are trying to trick you:
Telus= Kido,Telus
Rogers= Fido,Rogers,Chatr
Bell Mobility= Solo,Bell Mobility,Virgin
Wind Mobile= Only Wind,no gimmicks!
This proves that most people are ignorant to the real choices out there!If you take care of your company, they will take care of you back!Stick with wind!I personally thinbk too since they have coverage in Italy, and Greece that they should be apart of the wind home network.This would give them the true roaming free advantage and also alot of travellers to these countries would boom since they wouldnt need to pay roaming! =o)
You sound like you work for Wind
Fido and Rogers network are the same.
Yes, the service is terrible! I have had the same problem on my bill and they are anything but helpful when I call them about it. The data is roaming even though I have that setting specifically turned-off! My bill always has small amounts of data roaming charges. They were very extremely unhelpful when I called them about it– Wind please fix this problem, I used to be a big advocate of Wind Mobile but now I’ve stopped recommending your service to people. If you were more accommodating when I called I would at least think more of you… Seriously you are wasting everybody’s time when I call about an extra $2 on my bill that shouldn’t be there…
Keep your phone manually locked to wind’s home network when you are in their home zone. If you are traveling outside of the zone, then change your APN settings by adding an extra character to wind’s internet url, which would prevent your phone from gaining access to the net.
Blackberries and HTC Amaze have had data leak issues which have nothing to do with wind, and everything to do with the manufacturer of the phone.
> Blackberries and HTC Amaze have had data leak issues which have nothing to do with wind, and everything to do with the manufacturer of the phone…
…except of the fact that it’s Wind (not HTC or RIM) who sells these phones to the customers, knowing they have this issue, which leads to customers’ overcharging.
When is wind coming to victoria
WHEN IS WIND COMING TO ST JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND?
I have been locked in a contract for almost 2 years with fido. Thankfully, it is going to end soon. Can’t wait to move to Wind.
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