24 Facts About Freedom Mobile

Freedom Mobile Inc is a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider owned by Shaw Communications.

Freedom Mobile went on to be CEO at a former Orascom property, Tunisiana, the leading operator in Tunisia, and co-found the Canadian cellphone repair chain Mobile Klinik.

Competitors Mobilicity and Public Freedom Mobile withdrew from the CWTA, citing bias to its competitors Bell, Rogers, and Telus as justification.

In September 2014, VimpelCom's majority stake in Wind Freedom Mobile was sold to AAL Acquisitions Corporation for a fee of $135 million, with the consortium assuming $150 million of Wind's debt.

Wind Freedom Mobile continued to license the Wind name and logo, which remained trademarks of Wind Telecom, until 2016.

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In February 2015, the Financial Post had reported that Wind Freedom Mobile was in negotiations to take over Mobilicity in the weeks leading up to the AWS-3 spectrum auction registration deadline.

Freedom Mobile stated that it no longer wanted to license the Wind brand from VimpelCom due to increasing royalty fees, while CEO Alek Krstajic justified the move by stating that the company wanted to shed the "baggage" of the Wind name, and use the new ownership and developments as a means of re-launching the carrier.

Freedom Mobile will implement LTE service in Ottawa, Kingston and Peterborough on the AWS-1 band, providing LTE access to customers with existing AWS-1-compatible devices.

Globalive Capital the founder of Freedom Mobile's precursor made a bid by striking a network and spectrum sharing deal with telecom giant Telus.

Freedom Mobile provides UMTS wireless services with High Speed Packet Access for data using its license for UMTS Band IV, known as the Advanced Wireless Services band.

Freedom Mobile was the first Canadian wireless service provider to make use of Advanced Wireless Services bands for its primary network.

In late 2015, Freedom Mobile announced it secured $425 million in funding to build its own LTE network, meaning it would be able to offer 4G speeds up to 5x faster than those offered through the current HSPA+ network.

Outside of Ontario, Freedom Mobile has coverage in Gatineau, Quebec, across from Ottawa, ON; Calgary, Edmonton, Sherwood Park, Fort Saskatchewan, St Albert, Beaumont, Leduc, Nisku, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Red Deer and Edmonton International Airport in Alberta; plus the Greater Vancouver area, Victoria, Nanaimo, Courtenay, Comox, Campbell River, Cranbrook, Kelowna, Penticton, Prince George, Prince Rupert, Whistler, and Abbotsford in British Columbia.

In late 2018, Freedom Mobile announced that it had plans to expand its coverage to cities, such as Victoria and Nanaimo in British Columbia; Red Deer, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge in Alberta; and Pembroke, Cornwall, Brockville, Belleville and Cobourg in Ontario.

At the time, some suggested that Apple, known to be controlling about its products, would require Freedom Mobile to provide LTE coverage before the carrier would be granted the ability to sell the iPhone.

Freedom Mobile began offering refurbished iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S devices to its customers starting in 2015.

Alongside the impending launch of its LTE network, Freedom Mobile released the LG V20 and ZTE Grand X4 as its first LTE-compatible devices.

In November 2017, Freedom Mobile gained the ability to sell the iPhone to its customers on its LTE Network.

Occasionally, Freedom Mobile offers promotional plans with some or many bonus features to new and existing subscribers, notably the "Holiday Miracle" and the "Unlimited USA" plans.

Freedom Mobile introduced HD Voice across its entire network on compatible handsets in September 2012.

Freedom Mobile began enabling Wi-Fi calling for compatible handsets, at time of launch only the LG V20 but has since expanded, in April 2017.

All Freedom customers, including those without a mobile Internet plan or add-on, can access the WindWorld web portal and the Facebook Zero social networking service at no cost.

Competitor Public Freedom Mobile quickly partnered with Telus Mobility for both roaming agreements and together sued Wind for its foreign ownership.

Public Freedom Mobile itself received foreign funding of at least $350 million from the Export-Import Bank of China in 2010.