One of Canada’s fastest growing wireless communications providers appears set to expand their service to more and more of Canada. On Friday, Wind Mobile expanded their Canadian service and launched service in Ottawa. According to Wind Mobile, this is just the first move that the company will take in an attempt to compete with the national wireless leaders.
According to the expanding wireless network, the new expansion presently covers portions of Ottawa that are located in the Greenbelt, but it will expand in the near future to cover all of Gatineau, Orleans, and Kanata. Customer who are located near Ottawa, but not in the network’s zone should be careful. Wind Mobile customers that are calling outside of the calling area will have to pay an additional 25 cents per minute on top of any monthly package charge. However, customers calling outside of the network will not be charged any roaming fees.
According to Ken Campbell, who is the chief executive of Wind Mobile, the company is expanding rapidly. So far tens of thousands of customers have already signed up for service following previous launches. Wind Mobile has already launched service in several large Canadian cities including Edmonton, Toronto, and Calgary.
Wind Mobile appears to have further plans to expand as well. Beyond expanding the networks surrounding Ottawa, and the other major cities, the new wireless company will expand into Vancouver within the next few months. Campbell appears to be quite optimistic about the company’s future. He has stated that the low price packages and incentive for high volume users will eventually lead to Wind Mobile gaining a market share of 10 percent to 15 percent.
Wind Mobile To Offer Service In Ottawa
Why don’t they start covering the areas they said they would before expanding.
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My service is terrible in Oshawa. I paid good money for my phone and drop calls faster than a hook++ drops her, ya.
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turns out after having dropped calls while on the phone with Wind themselves, they say, I am not in the calling area, smack in the middle of Oshawa. And yet thier Map from the store says Oshawa is covered.
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So don’t get Wind, just yet. I warned them, if they didn’t get their act together it would bite them.
And now it is.
This company is no less expensive than Bell or Rogers
in many ways it is similar in price but the difference is you get unlimitted, so no overage fees.
scott g why dont you go whine somewhere else, you are an early adopter of a new provider, its not their fault you are not in their area, remember they launched in Toronto, NOT oshawa. And exactitude, as a customer of wind and a former virgin and rogers customer, I see a significant savings for my use, maybe it doesnt work for you but unlimited canada wide long distance calling works for me for 45 dollars. To each his/her own.
I, for one, am excited to see more competition no matter what their current capability. They’ll only get larger and better if they want to survive, and they want to survive. My Fido contract is up in 17 months. I’m likely not going back to Fido. I opted for a three year contract and now I realize that’s far too long to be hooked to one provider. I won’t do it again, especially since it does not provide me any protection from the provider changing policy mid stream. All it does is guarantee that I can’t leave without penalty.
Give the new guys a chance. You’ll see it will pay off for you.
Ya there coverage is realy bad. it probly easy to have lower cost when you coverage is so bad. It probly will go really expensive when they get coverage that I can use.
As soon as they become profitable enough, Bell and/or Rogers will make them “an offer they can’t refuse” and will end up buying them out (already did with Fido, and part of Craig Spectrum recently). The Big Three (Bell, Rogers, and Telus) will never allow any upstart companies to take any portion of “their” profiteering wireless business.
Billy says he gets long distant for $45 I get it via Skype for $2.40. Unlimited Canada & USA + conference calling And i do not need a computer!!
care to share how you do it?
you sign up for a Skype out account (1.99 u.s. / month) and then get a ‘Skype phone’ (not available at future shop or best buy where they SHOULD be – but what a surprise given they sell Bell, Telus, and Rogers plans). You can get Skype phones at some independent PC stores in the city – like Canada Computers.
I am a client in Toronto…and I can tell you there reception coverage SUCKS! I am in the beaches area and the closest tower is 2km away. My phone only works %20 of the time at home!!!!!
They should be building up their existant networks before expanding…
Whether Wind is bad or good now they will only get better coverage as they build out, and Telus, Rogers etc. are well aware of this. I’m a long time Telus customer but have never had a contract. Last time I talked to L&R they were really pushing to get me in a contract. Anyone who signs a three year contract with any of the existing cellphone companies right now really needs their head examined. A LOT of changes are going to happen in the Canadian market over the next three years. And right now you can get unlimited North America long distance for a lot less than $45 dollars too if you know where to look.
Try http://www.worldline.ca – there rates are not bad for long distance.