LandlineFREE - Dropping Ma Bell For Good

The Nexus One phone has the potential to be a major competitor to the very successful iPhone.

However, we still don't know if it will be officially available in Canada.

But that doesn't matter.

Roaming will be a funny thing for WIND Mobile.

When you are outside of WIND's coverage area, you'll be on Rogers' network. This will cost 25 cents per minute (which isn't really that bad).

So, if you're in a dead-spot where WIND is supposedly operating, you'll roam onto Rogers and pay 25cents per minute for all incoming and outgoing calls.

WIND will be selling their products through their retail stores, but also through select Blockbuster videostores.

Checkout my article here for WIND's own retail storefront non-kiosk locations.

My understanding is that they'll be actual kiosks, rather than the 7-11 Speakoutwireless stores where the products are sold by the regular clerks that may not be too familiar with the products.

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

... from the incumbents Telus, Bell and Rogers.

1. Tie-in with Google Voice (or at least cloning many of their services). This would allow one to check voicemail messages by having them emailed to you, and even having them transcribed. Seriously, just look at the Google Voice article to see what kind of innovations any telecom could offer if they just decided to be... innovative.

2. Innovative voicemail options: For example, tie-ins with Google Latitude, where callers (or select callers) can find out your geographic location when you're unable to take your call.

For now, we really have no idea what WIND plans to actually charge. Nothing official has been announced on the WIND Mobile Website. See the comment below for rumoured pricing, or post your own rumours!

However, it is reasonably safe to say that the main cost for operating a cell phone network is in setting everything up rather than the cost of each individual minute or text sent.

Alternate Title: How can WIND benefit me, even if they don't cover my area?

Will Wind Mobile have the iPhone?

December 2009 Update: WIND to actually launch, probably within a week. See this article for areas they'll actually be launching in.

WIND Mobile to launched Wednesday December 16th, check out where you can get a phone here.

I recommend the following steps for setting up your Nokia E63 for VoIP over Wifi (and perhaps for other S60 based phones as well), for Voip.ms, the realm settings were the same as the others:

How to configure SIP profile in Nokia Eseries devices for VoIP calls?

This text is a cut-and-paste from Nokia's FAQ.

Forget about Rogers TalkSpot, Fido Uno and T-Mobile's Hotspot@Home. They keep you tied to your cell provider, cut that cord!

It looks like Iridium is planning on becoming a publicly traded company, by merging with a company that is publicly traded.

Of course Rogers has now entered the home phone business to compete with Bell. If the ads haven’t already verified one thing for you already then here it is: one is not always better than the other. Let’s go over the cost and reasons why one would switch to rogers home phone.

After the Federal Ministry of Industry, Tony Clement, scrapped a government-sponsored cell phone plan comparison tool, just a few weeks before launch but after spending $1.4 million on it, it looks like someone else has stepped up to the challenge of filling this void.

Get a dial-around plan. In other words, to make a long distance call, first you call a local access number (or a toll-free one for an additional charge), and then from there you dial your long distance call. Many are configured to read your caller-id so that they don't require an access code.

These methods will work with all cellular phones, including Rogers, Fido, Bell, Telus, Solo, Koodo, PC Mobile, etc.