LandlineFREE - Dropping Ma Bell For Good

It looks like WIND will be launching on Wednesday according to CBC and Mobilesyrup.

WIND will be operating its own retail locations and kiosks inside select Blockbuster stores. As I've stated before, they'll be launching in Calgary and the Golden Horseshoe between Hamilton and Oshawa, but will surely be spreading around quickly. Near future launch cities should include Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa and hopefully regions around the already covered areas.

WIND Mobile locations that will sell WIND are rumoured to include:

Toronto and area WIND Mobile Malls:

BRAMALEA CITY CENTRE - BRAMALEA
WOODBINE CENTRE - ETOBICOKE
EAST GATE SQUARE - HAMILTON
JACKSON'S SQUARE - HAMILTON
MEADOWVALE TOWN CENTRE - MISSISSAUGA
MARKET PLACE - NORTH YORK
OAKVILLE SMART CENTRE - OAKVILLE
OSHAWA CENTRE - OSHAWA
PICKERING TOWN CENTRE - PICKERING
SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE - SCARBOROUGH
WOODSIDE SQUARE - SCARBOROUGH
PROMENADE MALL - THRONHILL
HOLT RENFREW CENTRE - TORONTO
QUEEN AND SPADINA - TORONTO
QUEENS QUAY - TORONTO
SHOPS AT DON MILLS - TORONTO
TORONTO LIFE SQUARE - TORONTO
YONGE AND EGLINTON - TORONTO
COLOSSUS SHOPPING - VAUGHAN

Calgary WIND Mobile Retail Stores

KENSINGTON VILLAGE - 10TH
WESTBROOK MALL - 37TH ST
17th AVENUE S.W. - CALGARY
MARLBOROUGH MALL - MARLBOROUGH

Insider Trading as an Indicator of WIND's Future Pricing

If insider trading on the stock market is any indication, and it usually is, WIND will be TOUGH competition for the existing incumbents of Rogers, Bell and Telus. Let's face it, although what's been posted in terms of pricing so far has only been rumours, some people out there know the actual prices, leaked it to someone that trades stocks, and made some smart "investments" based on that insider info. That momentum is often a good sign of what is to come.

Rogers, in three trading days has lost 11% of its capital value, or nearly TWO BILLION DOLLARS. Today they lost 3%, on a day that the stock market went up 1%.

Bell, in three trading days, has lost 7%, or nearly ONE POINT FIVE BILLION DOLLARS in market value.

Telus, in three trading days, has lost almost 6%, or SIX HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS in market value.

Over these three trading days, the TSX as a whole went UP 1.5%.

The threat of the imminent launch of WIND has already cost the incumbent telecoms nearly four billion dollars. Wow. Clearly some smart financial people KNOW that WIND will do some damage to these incumbents.

Don't forget, plenty of the risk/loss due to WIND's launch has already been priced into these telecoms' stocks, so they're merely losing even more market value now.