Now here’s an effective marketing strategy! Mobilicity announced today that they are offering free calling to China, Hong Kong and Singapore for the entire Lunar New Year. This year, it will take place from February 2nd until the 4th. “We want to give everyone an opportunity to experience unlimited Mobilicity calling to family and friends [...]

Big news today from Mobilicity and Facebook. If you have a Mobilicity phone that is Java powered ‘feature phone’ and feel like you have been missing out on your friends always being able to hop on Facebook on their BlackBerry or iPhone or Android phone feel left out no more! Together with Snaptu, Facebook has [...]

As mentioned in previous posts here, here, and here this week there was a Question & Answer Session with the CEO and President of Mobilicity, Dave Dobbin. If you missed the event and want to get the entire scoop that you couldn’t find from our various previous posts and the links provided we have a [...]

Last night Mobilicity’s CEO Dave Dobbin did a Question and Answer session with a group of HowardForums members and Canadian mobile bloggers at a St. Louis in North York and I found out some very interesting details of Mobilicity’s plans for 2011, just how Mobilicity operates, and their mentality towards the business in general. You [...]

At a Q&A session tonight in Toronto, Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin confirmed rumours that the new entrant AWS wireless provider will be bringing over the currently US-only Nexus S to Canadian soil. He also intimated that Rogers, Bell and Telus would be getting their own variations, but assured listeners that there would be a distinct [...]

At an informal question and answer session with Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin tonight in Toronto, the company announced that they will be sweetening their already-awesome Unlimited plans as of January 20th. Their $35 plan, which includes unlimited unlimited local and province-wide calling, unlimited national texting and voicemail, will add free Canadian long distance (previously $10) [...]

Yesterday, Mobilicity announced that they had become the first Canadian Carrier to offer an upgrade to BlackBerry 6 for the BlackBerry smartphones in their lineup, the Bold 9700 and the Curve 3G (a.k.a. 9300), that do not ship with BlackBerry 6 already installed on the devices. They have provided on their site (and linked below) [...]

Mobilicity just emailed us a press release that they are going to be introducing a new BlackBerry to their lineup - the BlackBerry Bold 9780. This phone is either in addition to, or in replacement of the current BlackBerry 9700 offered by Mobilicity, the press release doesn’t say. The 9780 is the first device in [...]

OK, this is pure speculation, but I think it’s fair time to talk about it. At the Mobilicity Christmas Party in early December, I had a chance to talk to to CEO Dave Dobbins about the company’s plans for 2011, and he was very excited. He said that they have a great lineup planned, including [...]

A couple months ago, on the eve of their expansion into three additional cities, I railed against Mobilicity. I railed against their spotty coverage, their lacklustre customer service, and at a crucial problem with Android devices whereby the phone gets disconnected from the tower, forcing the user to manually reconnect. As we approach 2011, I [...]