Current WIND Mobile customers would be transitioned to Fongo over the course of 12 months.
ENGADGET: Fongo makes a very public bid for control of Wind Mobile
Many WIND Mobile customers are already using Fongo paired with WIND Mobile data to maximize their savings.
ENGADGET: Fongo makes a very public bid for control of Wind Mobile
Orascom is now controlled by Dutch-based VimpelCom, who signalled its interest in selling WIND Mobile earlier this year.
ENGADGET: Fongo makes a very public bid for control of Wind Mobile
Currently, WIND Mobile's network coverage is limited mainly to Ontario, with pockets of coverage in Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver.
ENGADGET: Fongo makes a very public bid for control of Wind Mobile
Fongo plans to retain the majority of WIND Mobile's employees, but has pledged to re-think many aspects of the business.
ENGADGET: Fongo makes a very public bid for control of Wind Mobile
"This story should not end with WIND Mobile being absorbed by one of the incumbent telecommunications companies in Canada, " added Bullock.
ENGADGET: Fongo makes a very public bid for control of Wind Mobile
As part of the proposed acquisition, Fongo plans to immediately extend the WIND Mobile service offering across the country to mirror Fongo's coast-to-coast free calling network.
ENGADGET: Fongo makes a very public bid for control of Wind Mobile
Launched in late 2009 with backing from Egyptian-based Orascom Telecom, WIND Mobile was the first of several new wireless entrants to attempt to jockey for position in Canada's wireless industry.
ENGADGET: Fongo makes a very public bid for control of Wind Mobile
Canadian carrier Wind Mobile has faced no small amount of tumult in recent months, culminating in direct control by Orascom and talk of shopping the provider around to the highest bidder.
"WIND Mobile has done a fantastic job of signing up some of the most forward thinking mobile consumers in the country and has taught Canadians that there can be alternatives to traditional wireless service, " said Jody Schnarr, CEO of Fongo Inc.
ENGADGET: Fongo makes a very public bid for control of Wind Mobile
Postscript to the iPad versus iPhone debate: On Thanksgiving Day Henderson thought that it was possible the iPad would trump the iPhone and wind up being the mobile device to drive the most traffic to the retail web.
The ship is expected to arrive in Mobile Wednesday afternoon or, if sea and wind conditions worsen, early Thursday, he estimated.
ReGenerators are ruggedized mobile and transportable power systems that use solar, wind, and battery power to provide uninterrupted power to replace or augment fossil fuel generators.
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Such a grid is being tested at the army's model forward operating base (FOB) in Fort Irwin, California, along with prototypes of a mobile, hybrid power station that combines solar panels and wind turbines with a conventional generator.
"Verizon's timing was clearly intended to take wind out of Google's plans, " says Scott Ellison, vice president of mobile and wireless communications at market research firm IDC.
Wind gusts reached 66 mph Wednesday at nearby Brookley Field, according to the National Weather Service in Mobile, though a Carnival statement said the winds exceeded 70 mph.
In Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf Coast, residents prepared for the possibility of heavy rain and wind gusts as strong as 30 mph early Tuesday.
In this case there would be four winners - the mobile phone users, the telecoms firms, Freeplay, and indirectly the Freeplay Foundation, which distributes wind-up radios to refugees, for example, and to children that are heads of their household because both parents have died, most likely of Aids.
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