Telus now wants to help Canadian Health system.

TELUS boasts about their healthcare initiatives, slam government for its slow pace of innovation and adoption | MobileSyrup.com

Exactly what I predicted.

They should take care of their own products and service offerings first before critiquing the government.

SO what should mobilicity subscribers do now if they do plan to go bankrupt ?

i guess only one option
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on a serious note i hope they do it sooner than later tbh

It was suggested that WIND would gobble them up



Oh the man himself speaks http://mobilesyrup.com/2013/06/04/la...se-mobilicity/

well.. since the auction is pushed back again.. Wind can use this time and some money to make their network better... This could be good news...

forgive my ignorance, but why would the gov't stop the purchase by telus but possibly approve a purchase by wind?

No idea, maybe because it's not part of the big 3?
Thereby, it would help competition and the market place? If WIND has an additional spectrum, making it more competitive?

Because the rules before the auction clearly stated that new entrants can't sell to incumbents before 5 years.
However, it looks like they are changing the rules so the new entrants can't sell to the incumbents ever so that they can create a 4th national player for competition.

I agree, if you read between the lines, it does sound like the government really wants create a 4th national carrier.

well it happened.
Telus approved to buy Mobilicity for $350 million | Globalnews.ca

are they going to absorb mobilicity's current customers and tell them they have x time to switch over to a telus plan before shutting their plans down like they did with the company they bought out east? i think the name of that one was Public something.

lol Telus buying everything!

Not quite.

Still pending approval from the government.

Hmm... Time to start shopping again?

TELUS get denied... STRIKE 3, Your Out!

Globe and Mail article says that the Feds will deny the incumbents from ever bidding on upcoming frequency auctions if they keep insisting on buying out the competition.. LMAO

i guess no means no :lol

There are some funny things with regards to this.

1) Telus has the least spectrum of all the Big 3.
2) It's past the 5 year moratorium for spectrum set-aside. According to rules set by the government, should be fair game.
3) Shaw purchased AWS spectrum during that same auction. Guess what? Rogers made a deal with Shaw to purchase/use that spectrum. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, here.
4) Telus is the only one of the Big 3 that is actually, currently allowed to participate in the 2500mhz auction. The government fucks things up royally, by threatening (and following through on) to bar Telus from that auction in 2015. Bye bye big money.

These are just some of the comical nuances I've noted, during all this. I really don't have a preference one way or another with regards to what happens, honestly.

Mobilicity is pretty bad. I think if WIND could buy there spectrum, that can increase comeptition for the big 3 and we can finally see some lowe prices.

So if Mobilicity goes under, what happens to their spectrum licenses? Can they sell it to the Big Three?

It's not up to Mobilicity. Their spectrum would be given back to the government, and the CRTC will then auction it off to whomever they choose. CRTC is still looking for another big competitor to come up. So they may just reserve it for that. But its not like another company can just come and lease the spectrum.

I was really looking forward to the whole Verizon coming to Canada rumor thing, would have been great for the marketplace.

They'll probably do what Bell did with Solo when they started shutting it down, provide a bunch of B/S policies and absolute shit customer service so people get frustrated and leave.

Ive been with Mobilicity for a few years now and its been pretty good for me. I want choice, no contracts, lots of data for a good price. I hate to think how Telus will mess everything up if they buy out mobilicity.