Workers love relaxed mood

Chris Tsiavalias completed the computer networking program at St. Clair College and was taking courses in law enforcement when he applied for a job in Globalive Communication Corp.’s Windsor call centre.

His expectations weren’t high.

Fifteen months later, Tsiavalias has gotten used to the surprised looks he gets when he tells folks he loves his job.

Wind Mobile officially opened its call centre in Peterborough on Tuesday with speeches by Peterborough’s MP, the mayor and county warden.

The new wireless phone service provider originally announced in September that it would open a call centre at the former Bell Canada building at 364 Water St.

We posted earlier that WIND requested Canadians to have a “buyer beware” mentality when considering new wireless carrier Mobilicity. However it looks like they are really digging in their heels as they have released a top 10 comparison of what makes them the better choice over Mobilicity.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Harper government is committed to preserving Canadian content on television and radio while allowing for a greater foreign presence in the telecommunications sector, Industry Minister Tony Clement says.

The minister told a House committee Thursday it is possible to separate the two.

“I’m not saying it’s easy, but it certainly isn’t impossible,” he said.

Industry Minister Tony Clement has firmly defended the government’s decision to declare Globalive Wireless Management Corp. a Canadian controlled company, an order that set off a controversy over the status of the country’s telecom foreign investment law.

The facts before the cabinet were “quite clear,” Clement told the Commons Industry, Science and Technology committee on Thursday. But “reasonable minds could differ.”

ADFLOW Networks Inc., a Burlington, Ontario-based provider of wireless retail digital media and interactive digital signage solutions, has strengthened its foothold in the mobile phone retailer industry by providing its ADFLOW DMS™ platform to Canada’s newest wireless telecommunications carrier, WIND Mobile, as the foundation for its in-store digital media system.

The other day I took had the opportunity to go deep behind the scene of Wind Mobile’s network
– basically the guts of their operations. As you’ll see in the video I catch up with Ante Rupcic, he’s the VP of Core Network and he’s one of those guys who has years of experience and loves what he does. We talk about about what and how long it takes to build an all IP network, why the room is so cold and loud, what happens when/if a disaster occurs and how the back-end of Wind actually works. The video is over 20 minutes in length and offers general overview of this highly secure Toronto facility (they have locations similar to this in all their launch cities).

Wind Mobile has abandoned the idea of only selling unlimited data plans for its smart phones, announcing Wednesday that it has introduced tiered data pricing where subscribers can choose different mobile data plans at different price points.

A few days ago there was a rumour with possible new plans that WIND Mobile was going to introduce… well today they have officially announced these plans the “Charged Mobile”, “Charged BlackBerry” and “Social Mobile”.

Yesterday, Wind Mobile introduced a new data add-on for middle-range subscribers, but today they’re trying to rope in customers with some more direct incentives: 50% off their first six months of voice/data service (no add-ons) if they sign up before the end of May. Additionally, if you’re already a Wind Mobile subscriber, you can take advantage of a new referral program which will give you a whole free month of service for every friend you recruit, capping out at six referrals.