Just a day after the Canadian Government deep sixed the Telus Mobilicity deal, comes news that upstart wireless provider Wind Mobile wants to grab Mobilicity. Here’s what Wind CEO Anthony Lacavera had to say:
Lacavera said Mobilicity’s spectrum if combined with Wind Mobile’s would allow the combined company to build out a faster, next-generation network that will handle heavy data use from smartphones and tablets.
“We can’t go to the next generation without more spectrum,” he said, calling the merging of the two companies a “logical combination.”
I have to agree with him. Let’s think about this for a second. The combined company would have just under a million subscribers. Now Rogers has 25 million subscribers so that’s just a drop in the bucket. But the big news is that the combined company would have access to a pile of spectrum that would allow them to truly compete against Rogers, Telus, and Bell as they would be able to attract subscribers because of their coverage.
I’m guessing at a few people at Rogers, Telus and Bell are saying “oh crap” right about now and hoping that this doesn’t happen.
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Wind Mobile In The Market For Mobilicity
Just a day after the Canadian Government deep sixed the Telus Mobilicity deal, comes news that upstart wireless provider Wind Mobile wants to grab Mobilicity. Here’s what Wind CEO Anthony Lacavera had to say:
Lacavera said Mobilicity’s spectrum if combined with Wind Mobile’s would allow the combined company to build out a faster, next-generation network that will handle heavy data use from smartphones and tablets.
“We can’t go to the next generation without more spectrum,” he said, calling the merging of the two companies a “logical combination.”
I have to agree with him. Let’s think about this for a second. The combined company would have just under a million subscribers. Now Rogers has 25 million subscribers so that’s just a drop in the bucket. But the big news is that the combined company would have access to a pile of spectrum that would allow them to truly compete against Rogers, Telus, and Bell as they would be able to attract subscribers because of their coverage.
I’m guessing at a few people at Rogers, Telus and Bell are saying “oh crap” right about now and hoping that this doesn’t happen.
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