27 Facts About Mobilicity

Mobilicity was one of several new mobile network operators, along with Public Mobile and Wind Mobile, which launched in Canada after a government initiative to encourage competition in the wireless sector.

Mobilicity was built to deliver Canadians a simple mobile solution.

Mobilicity sold the phone at a $600 retail price, but cut it in half to $300 by Q3 2012.

The court order allows Mobilicity to ask creditors to vote on business sale and restructuring plans which contain actions that are intended to help the company raise additional capital and pursue other strategic options.

Mobilicity stated that they believe the deal "will not affect competition in the Canadian wireless sector" and will satisfy government regulators.

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The negotiations had been reportedly stalled due to the high price that Mobilicity's creditors were requesting from WIND to purchase the smaller carrier's assets.

Mobilicity's network was built in 2009 and maintained by Ericsson.

Mobilicity had a cell-site sharing agreement with Bell Mobility to share cell tower space in all Mobilicity zones.

Mobilicity's network was compatible with the same 3G handsets and devices offered by these carriers.

However, Mobilicity failed to ever complete any significant network expansion.

Mobilicity offers "Unlimited Prepaid" packages, previously known as "Unlimited To Go".

Mobilicity offers various smartphones, each using one of three platforms:.

Mobilicity sells two devices that are exclusively designed for mobile broadband:the Huawei E1691 and the Huawei E583C.

Mobilicity sells a Wi-Fi dock for use with the USB modem and a Wi-Fi signal repeater.

Mobilicity offers both site-limited and unlimited mobile broadband Internet access monthly add-ons at a low price to any feature phones or smartphones plan without this feature.

Customers using mobile Internet on Mobilicity must follow the operator's Fair Use Policy, which prohibits "causing network instability", as well as illegal "copyright-protected or patent-protected material" transferred without the owner's permission.

Mobilicity has been criticized for blocking legitimate traffic and for being unclear about its throttling practices, and for initially refusing to advise customers of what constituted acceptable usage, while maintaining claims of being unlimited, and even going as far as terminating the services of some customers for using too much of an unlimited service.

In October 2012, Mobilicity published a Fair Use Policy stating the allowances for full speed usage on its HSPA+ network.

Mobilicity makes various claims regarding these, such as the requirement of a three-year contract or that unlimited talk time can only be used on evenings or weekends.

Some have criticized Mobilicity for selling mobile Internet services on speed and protocol tiers, a practice employed by Public Mobile with its 2G and 3G plans but not by Wind Mobile, which charges the same price for HSPA and HSPA+ access.

Mobilicity has had many network outages, most of them minor and short-lived but two of the more well known and serious instances are discussed below.

Those without Mobilicity who attempted to call a Mobilicity client would be subject to a busy signal, making it impossible for them to leave a voicemail even if the client subscribed to this feature.

In 2011, Mobilicity handed out Durex condoms on February 11, shortly before that year's Valentine's Day, in all the cities it served at the time.

The arrangement consisted of Mobilicity launching full-service kiosks inside these Metro stores.

Mobilicity closed all its third party retail operations in early 2013.

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Unlike Wind Mobile, Mobilicity did not open a retail store catering to the French demographic.

French-speaking regions where the Mobilicity network was available include the Vanier neighborhoods in Ottawa, as well as Gatineau.