The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) has signed an agreement to invest $50 million in BMV Holdings, a new discount cell phone carrier planning to enter the Canadian wireless market in the third quarter of this year.
BMV, which purchased $52 million worth of airwaves licenses in Canada’s most recent wireless spectrum auction, hopes […]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will introduce new regulations compelling mobile phone carriers to improve access to 911 emergency services, the regulator announced yesterday.
“We have made a decision that by February of 2010, Canadians will have access to enhanced 911 services,” said CRTC vice chairman, Len Katz, explaining that enhanced 911 makes it […]
The vast majority (84%) of of Wi-Fi users are interested in citywide Wi-Fi services, and a surprisingly large percentage (56%) say they would be willing to pay for it just like any other public utility, according to a recent survey by Devicescape, a wireless application vendor.
The international poll of 2700 Devicescape customers found that laptop […]