Globalive completed its first test call on the network in June 2009. ![]() 2009: Network tests, government approval, retail partnership and launch The most prominent issue was Globalive's reliance on Orascom for its debt, which stood at $508 million (CAD). The regulatory body stated that Globalive did not meet Canadian ownership requirements. The launch of the company was delayed due to a public ownership review by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Ken Campbell, a former Vodafone and Orascom executive, was named as the first chief executive officer of Globalive Wireless in 2008. Globalive bid $442 million (CAD) in 2008 to secure the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) wireless spectrum (3G at 1,700mhz) required for the launch of the network. ![]() Globalive, a Canadian company was primarily financed by an Egyptian corporation, Orascom Telecom Holding, and managed by Wind Telecom S.p.A., which owns a number of other "Wind" brand telecommunications companies. The sale of Freedom to Québecor was approved on Maand closed on April 3, 2023. On June 17, 2022, Shaw Communications, Rogers Communications and Québecor jointly announced an agreement for the sale of Freedom Mobile to Québecor, parent of Vidéotron, pending approval of Competition Bureau and Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. In 2016, Wind Mobile was acquired by Shaw Communications and subsequently renamed Freedom Mobile. Since then, Southern Ontario has been the main target of network expansion: first with Ottawa in Q1 2011, and then with about half a dozen additional regions, the most recently being Cornwall, Cobourg, Belleville, Trenton, Brockville, and Pembroke on March 8, 2019. ![]() It initially launched mobile data and voice services in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Ontario, on December 16, 2009, and two days later in Calgary, Alberta. įounded in 2008 as Wind Mobile by the telecommunications company Globalive, Freedom was one of several new mobile carriers launched in Canada in 2008 after a government initiative to encourage competition in the wireless sector alongside Mobilicity (later acquired by Rogers Communications) and Public Mobile (later acquired by Telus). Freedom Mobile is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in Canada, with 2,290,497 subscribers as of November 30, 2022. It has 6% market share of the Canadian wireless market, mostly in urban areas of Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. is a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider owned by Quebecor.
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