It’s official, Verizon wants into Canada and they’re using the logic of go big or go home. According to The Globe And Mail, they’ve made a $700 offer for Wind Mobile. Plus they’re holding talks with Mobilicity and they’re considering taking part in the next round of wireless spectrum auction:
Verizon, long barred from full ownership of a Canadian telecom company by foreign investment rules, now has an opening. Ottawa last year relaxed those restrictions on small telecom companies with market share of 10 per cent or less, with an eye to increasing competition for the big three phone companies, Telus Corp., Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc.
You can bet that execs at Rogers, Bell, and Telus are freaking out right now. If this does go through, today will be the date that you will want to mark on the calendar as the day that things changed for the better for consumers who have cellular service in Canada.
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Verizon Goes After Wind Mobile And Maybe Mobilicity….. Yahoo!
It’s official, Verizon wants into Canada and they’re using the logic of go big or go home. According to The Globe And Mail, they’ve made a $700 offer for Wind Mobile. Plus they’re holding talks with Mobilicity and they’re considering taking part in the next round of wireless spectrum auction:
Verizon, long barred from full ownership of a Canadian telecom company by foreign investment rules, now has an opening. Ottawa last year relaxed those restrictions on small telecom companies with market share of 10 per cent or less, with an eye to increasing competition for the big three phone companies, Telus Corp., Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc.
You can bet that execs at Rogers, Bell, and Telus are freaking out right now. If this does go through, today will be the date that you will want to mark on the calendar as the day that things changed for the better for consumers who have cellular service in Canada.
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