It’s not exactly earth-shattering news, but we’re sure it’s going to make at least a handful of our readers happy, as WIND Mobile today announced it will soon be setting up shop in the region of Kitchener-Waterloo. The exact date of the launch has yet to be disclosed, but we do know that WIND is [...]

WIND Mobile today announced that Anthony Lacavera, founder and Chairman of WIND Mobile will also take on the responsibilities of the company’s CEO, replacing previous CEO Ken Campbell. Campbell joined WIND in when it was still just a start-up and has helped the company grow to its current subscriber base and market position. Lacavera was [...]

The ink is barely dry on the pricing news this morning, and WIND has decided to go ahead and launch the LG Optimus 2X a day earlier than expected. We had a chance to go hands-on with the dual-cored wonder a little over a month ago at the LG Experience in Toronto and have been [...]

Congrats WIND, you have successfully taken a great phone and made it even better, pricing it at $450 outright or $300 on the WINDtab. For the money you’re getting a phone that comes stock with Android 2.2 - but will get 2.3 later this year - and also has a super fast dual-core processor. Although [...]

A few days ago we reported that WIND would be offering $1 refurb BlackBerry 9700′s as a celebratory offer for hitting their 1 year anniversary being live in Vancouver; well guess what, the day is here. The first 50 customers to arrive - and activate - at the Davie St. location in Vancouver, BC will [...]

To call Anthony (Tony) Lacavera a charismatic CEO would be an understatement. The head of Globalive (owner of WIND Mobile and Yak Communications) is a poised, confident, and very well spoken leader. Today - the final day of the Canadian Telecom Summit - Tony gave the mornings keynote speech and wasted to time diving into [...]

  Yup, you read that headline right; to commemorate their 1 year anniversary of being live in Vancouver, BC WIND is selling refurbished slightly loved BlackBerry 9700′s for $1 starting this Friday June 3rd, 2011. Not to shabby of a deal when you think about it; the phone can be updated to BlackBerry 6 and [...]

WIND Mobile’s contest is simple: it asks people, “if you could talk to anyone in the world who would it be and why?” Today, high school entrepreneurship teacher Barbara McKinnon was given her wish to speak to Canadian business maverick and philanthropist, W. Brett Wilson. McKinnon was under the impression that the conversation would take [...]

We just got news via a WIND Mobile press release that the new operator, only a year old, is now officially considered the fastest growing carrier in Canada. During Q1 of 2011, WIND Mobile added 39,000 new subscribers which was 30% of subscriber growth across the Canadian wireless industry. When that growth is adjusted to [...]

The ink is barely dry on my last post in regard to both the announcements of the new LG Optimus 2X and the new Optimus Pad, and we just stumbled on another key little piece of information. Remember in the last post how I pointed out that one of the Optimus 2X’s had a T-Mobile [...]