Shaw Communications Buys Wind Mobile

Shaw Communications is buying Mid-Bowline Group Corp., the owner of Wind Mobile Corp.

Wind is Canada's largest non-incumbent wireless services provider, serving approximately 940,000 subscribers across Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta with 50MHz of spectrum in each of these regions.

Wind has a bit over three percent market share in the Canadian mobile market.

Wind has yet to begin building a fourth generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, so that undoubtedly will be on the agenda, as Shaw prepares to step up competition with the leading mobile providers in Canada.