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  • Mobilicity gets the green light from CRTC, looks to launch in Toronto soon

    Mobilicity gets the green light from CRTC, looks to launch in Toronto soon

    Posted on May 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Right on cue, the artist formerly known as DAVE Wireless has been given approval to begin operations in Canada. Just as we heard earlier in the year, Mobilicity is looking to add some much-needed competition in the mobile operator space up north, and as predicted, the CRTC has given the initial stamp of approval needed for it to move forward with business operations. The company has to make a few minor changes up the ladder in order to appease the Canadian overlords that regulate this stuff, but the outfit's top brass have stated that they have "no issues" whatsoever in complying. If all goes well, the carrier plans to start up service in Toronto before the summer swings in, with Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa to get covered later in the year. Here's hoping those blasted three-year contracts vanish for good, eh?

    [Thanks, Adam]

    Mobilicity gets the green light from CRTC, looks to launch in Toronto soon originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 May 2010 03:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • MSI Wind series netbooks go multi-platinum. So here’s another one.

    MSI Wind series netbooks go multi-platinum. So here’s another one.

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    MSI has sold millions of their Wind series of netbooks. Let’s all give them a round of applause shall we? But what does this mean for you guys? Good things, as luck would have it. Instead of some useless, commemorative award, they roll out the U135 model. And unlike most “Yay us!” products, this one [...]

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  • WIND Mobile launches in Canada, T-Mobile gets a spectrum buddy

    WIND Mobile launches in Canada, T-Mobile gets a spectrum buddy

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Despite some last-minute drama with the government, Canada's WIND Mobile has launched today, bringing to the table an interesting new low-cost competitor to the nation's giant incumbents, Rogers, Bell, and Telus. Though its network -- based on last year's AWS auction -- lacks the footprint of the bigger guys, the pricing is pretty compelling: its $15 voice plan offers twice the minutes of low-cost competitors Koodo and Fido (which are really just fronts for Telus and Rogers, anyway) and CAD $35 (about $33) wins you unlimited data on your BlackBerry. Speaking of BlackBerrys, WIND is rolling out the Bold 9700 as one of its launch devices alongside the HTC Maple (known as the Dash 3G in the States), the Samsung Gravity, the Huawei U519, and the E181 USB modem. Service is only live in Toronto and Calgary at the moment, but the limited distribution doesn't seem to be holding people back -- WIND's site has been up and down all morning.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    WIND Mobile launches in Canada, T-Mobile gets a spectrum buddy originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • MSI readying 12-inch MSI Wind U230 with AMD Neo CPU, Windows 7

    MSI readying 12-inch MSI Wind U230 with AMD Neo CPU, Windows 7

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    u230It looks like MSI is getting set to launch a 12-inch Windows 7 netbook from its U200 series. You'll recall that the company released the Vista-based U210 back in mid-September, and this new one, the U230, appears to be very similar with the exception of the newer operating system and a bumped ATI Radeon GPU.

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  • CRTC blocks Canada’s WIND from launching over ownership concerns

    CRTC blocks Canada’s WIND from launching over ownership concerns

    Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments

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    Globalive, which has recently been ramping up to launch a national Canadian phone service under the WIND brand using spectrum won in last year's auction, has been dealt a hell of a blow by the CRTC this week. The organization -- essentially the northern equivalent of the FCC -- has strict rules demanding that Canadian wireless networks be Canadian-owned, and an investigation of WIND's structure has apparently raised enough concern to cause it to call off the service's launch. Egypt's Orascom Telecom (which, strangely, also runs North Korea's Koryolink) owns some 65.1 percent of the operation and apparently "holds the overwhelming majority of the outstanding debt" for which Globalive is responsible, so yeah, we can see how that might not qualify as "Canadian-owned." For its part, Globalive says that it's "extremely disappointed" in the decision and "will be evaluating [its] options on how to proceed," but in all likelihood, that's going to have to mean cashing out a good chunk of Orascom if it's serious about making this happen.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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    CRTC blocks Canada's WIND from launching over ownership concerns originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • MSI Wind U110 ECO promises 15+ hour battery

    MSI Wind U110 ECO promises 15+ hour battery

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Okay, here’s the MSI Wind U110 ECO. It’s a netbook, through and through, with the added twist of a nine-cell battery good for what MSI claims to be over 15 hours of battery life. Not bad considering the weight of the computer is kept at a very-portable 3.2 pounds.

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  • MSI’s 12-inch Wind U210 gets official pricing and availability

    MSI’s 12-inch Wind U210 gets official pricing and availability

    Posted on September 15, 2009 | No Comments
    MSI’s gone the AMD Neo route with the Wind U210, available now for $429 at Amazon and Newegg. The U210’s got a 12.1-inch screen with a 1366×768 resolution, 1.6GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM, 250GB hard drive, Vista Home Premium, 3.2-pound weight, and a six cell battery good for over four hours according to MSI (five [...]

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  • AMD-based MSI Wind coming soon, touchscreen tablet next year

    AMD-based MSI Wind coming soon, touchscreen tablet next year

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    U210MSI's got a 12-inch Wind netbook rolling out to the US in the next few weeks. The U210 will feature an AMD CPU, though, which ought to place it in direct competition with Gateway's LT3100. We can probably expect to see shorter battery life (the LT3100 promises five hours) in exchange for some extra power over Intel's Atom offerings.

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