Thanks Siouxie guess I need to upgrade then

I think WIND does have phone slightly different frequency requirements. I have brought a phone with me from UK but have been told that it wont work on WIND. I havent tested it myself though.

WIND use the 1700 MHz frequency (also known as AWS).

You can try looking at the link I gave earlier which shows most compatible phones, or else go to the Wind store and ask them to test it (which they will, free).

What phone? You should quickly be able to determine if it would work from a quick Google.

Iphone 4 / 4S will not work on Wind as an Example.

You will also need to check Wind offer the SIM which will fit the iPhone 5. I'm not sure that they do.

If the iPhone 5 uses the same SIMas an iphone4/4s, then it's not a problem... You can cut/file a standard sim down to a micro sim.

Iphone 5 uses a ' nano sim '
which is smaller and thinner than a micro sim

Just saw a combined campaign advert in the newspaper yesterday from the 3 major mobile service providers in Canada against a new entrant from the US who has recently been issued a license to operate in Canada. It got me quite curious as they were portraying the move as a 'job cutter' in the industry and the new career being favoured to 'enjoy the subsidised network paid for by the Canadians with their taxes'. So I looked it up and it seems quite encouraging that we will soon have a new name in the Canadian cell phone market.

http://globalnews.ca/news/673574/ver...-need-to-know/

Don't blame the Canadians for placing stupid full page adverts against a new competitor, cuz it just seems to be in their genes to hate competition. Theres a reason why everything is so cheap on the other side of the border.

CRTC is not exactly known for their positive action, but what they've done to try to introduce more competition I think is great. Some of the smaller entrants do actually offer great deals. My brother, who has been with Rogers for about a decade, just switched to Koodo - he's on a plan with 1GB Internet, 200 daytime, unlimited evenings and weekends from 5pm, unlimited texting including international and picture messaging (but not international picture messaging!), call display and call forwarding and a few other bonus bits included, all for $50/month, including a tab for a new Nexus 4. He was previously with Rogers on a plan that was not nearly as good and cost him $80/month and didn't have all the extra bonus bits. I will certainly be going with Koodo when I move home, and my mom is going to move to their low monthly rates as well, she's paying $30/month with Rogers for I think 500 anytime minutes, no data, no call display, no voicemail, and 500 text messages. Absolute ripoff.

I'm all for bringing in new competition, the more people make a statement by moving away from the big conglomerates the better!!

Another thought, having re-read the article... I know that there's a limit that foreign companies can't have more than 10% market share, which is fair enough... what if Verizon grows to more than 10% though, but started with less than that? Would they then be forced to sell off or something? It just seems to break my brain that a company would enter, knowing they can't ever grow to more than a certain size... unless growing to that size is fine, they just can't start out that big... just a thought.

The sheer gall of the Telus/Bell/Rogers cartel has reached new heights with this campaign. Access to networks "built by Canadians with their tax dollars" they say. I'm not quite sure how they think tax dollars have been used to build the infrastructure owned and operated by three private companies, but if it's an acknowledgement that they've been recipients of extremely favourable tax treatment for years, then so be it. And if it's our tax dollars that have built it, let us bloody well have whoever we like providing services on it. They can't have it both ways...

And as for the complaint that they'll be "forced" to share that infrastructure - that's true only to the extent that it's not worth any new market entrant investing in old technology (e.g. CDMA networks in rural areas). I would have some limited sympathy with the incumbents' view if they had limited their bleating to sharing LTE and other new-generation towers. Mind you, they don't have a good reputation for dealing well with "virtual operator" companies - look what happened to Virgin's service offerings when Bell got fed up with their own brand being undercut by their joint venture partner.

Not that Verizon (the rumoured "new entrant" if it buys Wind or Mobilicity) has any better a reputation for good pricing or customer service that the Canadian majors, but at the very least its arrival on the scene may drive data prices and, particularly, international roaming charges down to a more reasonable level.

And to Schnookololy - your last point about market share is a good one. But, long before Verizon grew to that point, they'd presumably have set up a separate subsidiary company, Verizon Canada or something, with a corporate governance structure that met the CRTC's or Competition Commission's rules on local management - then all bets would be off as the foreign ownership of a parent corporation falls under a different category and the 10% market share restriction is no longer in effect.

Bump as it might be helpful to new comers