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Earlier today, the Canadian government overturned the CRTC’s ruling that Globalive would not be permitted to operate its WIND mobile service in Canada due to its foreign ownership structure.

Earlier this week I was invited to attend an intimate gathering held by Rogers at Yorkville’s Hazelton Hotel. It was in the Silver Screening room where Rogers unveiled what they believe to be “the next big thing in TV”.

Looks like the folks at WIND Mobile (the Globalive team) have a great sense of humour as they prepare to go after the big mobile carriers. Don’t think mobile pricing is messed up in Canada? Then watch watch happens when a hot dog vendor tries to adapts traditional mobile billing fees to his own business:

On July 11, the launch of Apple’s latest 3G iPhone was supposed to happen at Rogers/Fido stores and also at Apple store locations. There’s a lot of speculation about why the Apple Store decided not to sell the phones on launch day, but to me it’s pretty clear: Apple employees are not Rogers employees. It’s [...]

Rogers issued a VERY short press release on the iPhone launch in Canada today: TORONTO, April 29 – Ted Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Communications Inc. today issued the following statement: We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. We [...]

Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus brought the issue of net neutrality and the throttling of network access front and center recently when suggested that Industry Minister Jim Prentice’s “Hands off approach to hands on interference is bad news for the development of the Canadian innovation agenda.” [vid]r5UvAKcxTGE[/vid] In the video above, he went on to [...]

I’m still a bit skeptical, but my friend Andy Walker reported that a reputable, inside source at Rogers has confirmed the iPhone will arrive in Canada on the Rogers network this September 2008. More importantly, reasonably priced data plans will follow that are more in line with pricing we’ve seen from US carriers.

On January 15th, at the 2008 MacWorld Conference & Expo, Steve Jobs will announce the settlement of Apple’s dispute with Comwave over the iPhone trademark in Canada, that Rogers has revamped the pricing on its data plans and the iPhone is available in Canada immediately at Apple Stores across the country. At least, that’s what [...]