Telus in talks to acquire Mobilicity
 

This is B.S. if it happens. Mobilicity has some great plans, and we all know what will happen when acquired. Fees go up and plans changed for the worse to increase profits.


Telus mum on reports it

lol telus couldnt afford to go after Wind, so they go after Mobi.. haha

doubt such acquisition would be allowed by the government

not until 2014 at least... then its free for all for the incumbents..

lol Blame the CRTC for not allowing non-Canadian companies to operate wirless and TV/Internet service in Canada in order to protect Canadians.

Oh, the big carriers!

They have given my family much grief over the years. The lack of choice in the Canadian wireless industry is almost a human rights violation.

non-Canadian companies are allowed to operate wireless now

You're an idiot.

#:derp: No man, wutchu talkin' bout. It is up to private corporations and both federal and provincial governments to provide us wireless service. We're entitled to it all, unlimited minutes, data and fucking roaming - free.

:derp: x 1000

lol if robelus gets approved for the buyout of the new entrants, its all over where they dominate the wireless industry... so all this time that the government said they will make changes will be nothing but a joke and waste of tax payers dollars..

If this goes down it'll be, yet another, slap in the face for all of us. I still cannot get over how their cartel actions go uninterrupted and how much our tax payer dollars go to supporting the guys that make it legal for these crooks to operate like they do.

How can the government expect our country to become further developed and successful when they directly contribute to the restriction and access to information and communications. Not to mention the 'protection' of Canadian companies from foreign-based competition that keeps them sitting around with shit-eating grins. Such a joke. The unfortunate part is most of us are forced to buy into it.


Until then just buy some stock in Telus and watch it constantly rise :troll:

In other news, Catalyst Capital Group wants to merge WIND and Mobilicity

The article also states that Rogers and Telus are interested in acquiring WIND.

I doubt Rogers would interested in Wind if they got the go ahead to take Shaw's AWS....

Bell/Telus would love to take both Wind and Mobi.. I highly doubt they would get both... Tony Lacavara would have higher chance to retake Wind, IF the government really steps in and stop robelus from the buyout...

Right and you know how hard it is for them to operate? Basically they have to piggy back on the big 3. Do you think the big 3 is going ot give these small guys the best network (currently their own customer is using) to these small guys? Most likely no. I am not sure what provider you use but have molbi celluar network is bad that people constanlty have drop calls their 3d,4d doens't work for hours at a time.

Not to mention there are the phones you get with each provider. As a phone maker (IE Samsung). will mot likely provider their newest phone to the big 3 becasue it helps the phone provider with sales and the big 3 buys them in bulk (we are talking maybe millions of unit) while the small guys will be lucky to even order a million. Chances are companies like Samsung will most likely want to deal with the big 3 frist before dealing with the small guys.

TELUS to acquire Mobilicity and its 250,000 subs for $380 million | MobileSyrup.com

Telus just bought Mobilicity, just awaiting approval before the purchase can be finalized.

Well, shit.

We're a small market and have a huge landmass. Only big companies can operate here. We have a market that 1/10th the size of the US. And virtually all other developed countries have a landmass that is much much smaller than ours.

Having no choice sucks, but let's face the facts. If only people cared about politics as much as they care about saving a few bucks on their wireless service, perhaps we'd be better off as a country? Priorities people.
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what does this mean for current mobilicity users and their current phone plans?

The incumbents CANNOT buy any of the three new wireless carriers until 2014, at the earliest. This transaction will not be approved.

its already been writting that this is true on the face, only new players who wants to enter the canadian market can buy them before that...... but behind the curtains/ under the table, it will be Telus operating.... and you can be sure that Mobi will have money now to scope up some of the 700mhz spectrum... damn.. telus will have LOTS of this spectrum at the beginning of 2014 and officially announce the takeover

I don't know if Telus will be injecting money into Mobilicity under the table for LTE spectrum acquisition; however, I can see that this mess will drag out for another 6-8 months until early next year, the federal government and its regulators will then approve this buyout. Telus will re-farm all of the 1700MHz spectrum from Mobilicity for LTE, so that they can be in a better position to compete with Bell and Rogers for network supremacy. All of the Mobi plans will then hopefully be grandfathered, the existing Mobi users will be offered 2-3 year agreements to get a new handset with Telus to use their HSPA 1900/LTE 700/1700 network. 1700 will be used primarily to offload the 700Mhz spectrum in case it gets too congested.

At the end of the day, the only losers here will be consumers.

250,000 subs - lol. Low paying subs rarely generating any revenue.

Telus is more interested in the spectrum. It's far more valuable.

Well doesn't this just suck. I have had an amazing time with Mobilicity these past two years. Absolutely no complaints. This really really sucks.

sorry to burst your bubble, but you really think telus didnt get govnt's blessing before going forward with this acquisition? its going to be approved

i dont get why you guys are talking about less competition after this, didnt you read the article? mobilicity was losing money and would've declare bankruptcy, would've lost them as a competitor anyways