Wireless
Municipal Pension Fund Invests in Up-and-Coming Wireless Carrier, BMV
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 [...]
CRTC to Require Enhanced-911 Service on Canadian Wireless Networks
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 [...]
18% of U.S. Households Have Replaced Landlines with Cell Phones
The percentage of American households which have “cut the cord,” replacing their landlines with mobile phones, increased to 18% in the first half of 2008, according to a recently released survey. That’s up from 16% of U.S. households in early 2007, and just 7% in early 2005. Leading the trend towards cord cutting are households [...]