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Canada's mobile landscape flattens as Wind Mobile moves from upstart to incumbent

After a brief three-month review period, Canada's Wind Mobile is now fully owned by Shaw, according to a press release issued by the Calgary-based company this week. Wind Mobile, which has 940,000 subscribers in three Canadian provinces, is considered the country's fourth national carrier after Bell, Rogers and Telus. The carrier emerged after the government's AWS-1 spectrum auction in 2008, and has endured a rough ride, struggling to compete against the so-called Big Three, which already possessed considerable infrastructure and user bases when Wind launched in 2009. Other national new entrants from that time, Mobilicity and Public Mobile, were purchased by Rogers and Telus in 2015 and 2013, respectively. Until the $1.6 billion acquisition, Shaw Communications was one of the few telecommunications companies in Canada with no wireless entity, though it does operate a large network of high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots in medium-sized cities like Calgary and Edmonton. Shaw will now oversee W...<br clear='all'/>

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