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Things in the wireless industry in Canada are FINALLY starting to get interesting.  For far too long we have had relatively little choice and horrible data rates ($100 for 100mb?  Are you insane??) but things are actually starting to look up.  One thing our carriers had a problem with was bringing out the latest devices; they always seemed to be behind the rest of the world by 2 years.

An example of this newfound spunk is Telus’ launch of the Blackberry Storm.  Unfortunately, they are already out of devices. Boy, those did NOT last long!

BCE, the parent of Bell Mobility has actually been trying to complete a deal to be bought out, a deal that has now collapsed.  But it sounds like Bell is moving full steam ahead and seems to have a new bounce in their step.  Some of their new plans are actually not as bad as they have been.  Believe me, $70 for 500 minutes, unlimited evenings and weekends, unlimited incoming calls and unlimited data is pretty awesome here!

Bell has even been doing some UI work that seems to be fairly nice.  Brandon at pocketnow.com has a vid of the UI here.  Unfortunately they have had to put back the full rollout of the BB Storm till January which is going to create some sad faces at Christmas time.

Rogers is rolling out some awesomeness in the form of a 3.5G network!  This is going to be one of the fasted wireless networks around assuming they get it right.  There was some major issues with the 3G network with all those new iPhone users, but I think they have things working properly now.

There are also going to be some new faces in Canadian Cellular in 2009, lets just hope all the carriers feel the need to move forward on lowering data charges in Canada!

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