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Articles tagged with: Bell Mobility
Canada's DAVE Wireless signs roaming agreement with Rogers Wireless
New Canadian mobile network operator, Data & Audio Visual Enterprises Wireless (DAVE Wireless) says that it has entered into a multi-year roaming agreement with Rogers Wireless. more
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Bell Mobility Signs Tower Sharing Deal with Dave Wireless
Canada's upcoming new mobile network operator, Data & Audio Visual Enterprises Wireless (DAVE Wireless) says it has signed a licensing agreement with Bell Mobility for wireless cell-site sharing. more
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Telefonica and O2 Confirm Exclusive Rights to the Palm Pre
Palm has confirmed an oft-rumoured deal that grants exclusive rights to resell the Palm Pre to Telefonica in Spain and its O2 subsidiary in UK, Ireland and Germany. O2 now has both of the most hyped smartphones on the market, the Palm Pre and Apple's iPhone. more
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Bell Canada Buys Out Virgin Mobile MVNO
Bell Canada is buying out the 50% stake in Virgin Mobile Canada for CA$142 million (US$121 million), and entering into a long-term licensing agreement with the Virgin Group to retain the brandname rights. more
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Vodafone Offers SMS Access to Twitter in the UK
Fast growing micro-blogging service, Twitter has announced via its own "macro-blog" that Vodafone UK has resumed allowing updates via SMS. Anyone in the world can update Twitter via SMS but receiving tweets on a mobile phone has been restricted to North America due to the costs of providing the service. more
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Twitter Support for 2-Way SMS Returns to Canada
Bell Canada has announced that Bell Mobility will be the first wireless carrier to resume Canadians full SMS support for interacting with the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Last November, Twitter stopped supporting 2-way SMS traffic, citing the high costs of sending the replies back to the handsets. more
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Canadian Operators Switch to WCDMA - Plan LTE Rollout
Canada's two CDMA operators, Telus and Bell have confirmed recent rumours and jointly announced plans to build a WCDMA based overlay on their existing networks. The companies also confirmed a long-term migration path to LTE based services. more
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Canada's Mobile Penetration Rate Rises to 61.6%
The Canadian mobile market had another quiet quarter, as operators prepared for the 2GHz spectrum auction. This saw most of the available bandwidth going to the three large players, Rogers, Bell and Telus, but no fewer than 12 new entrants acquired licences. In total, the aution raised CA$4.25bn. The new entrants include 9193-2962 Quebec Inc (CA$554m, for Quebec), Globalive Wireless, which paid CA$442m for a national licence, Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises which won licences for Ontario, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Victoria at a cost of CA$243m and Shaw Communications, which paid CA$190m for spectrum in British Colombia, Alberta, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan and northern Ontario. more
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New Canadian Operator Expected to Launch in H2 2009
Globalive Communications, one of the winners in Canada's recent radio spectrum auction says that it expects to launch its new network in the second half of next year. The company paid CA$442 million for licenses which would cover the entire country - except Quebec. more
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Canada Industry Min: Switch Cos if Unhappy With Cell Fee Plan
OTTAWA -(Dow Jones)- Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice Friday said customers disgruntled over the decision by two cell-phone companies to charge for incoming text messages should look for alternative service providers. more
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