WIND Mobile is responding to customers by providing its most affordably priced option for mobile phones with the Huawei U1250 available for $70 starting Saturday, May 1 and extending its $150 porting credit until Tuesday, May 4

Do you believe in the power of conversation? Globalive’s WIND Mobile – Canada’s newest national wireless provider – this week announced the launch of a hiring campaign to recruit 100 retail employees in the Vancouver area. The new mobile provider is gearing up to launch service and open stores in the Vancouver market within the coming months.

View Anthony Lacavera’s speech delivered to the Empire Club of Canada on April 15, 2010.

WIND Mobile is opening its 50th retail location this weekend with the launch of its newest store in Yorkdale Mall. The weekend-long celebration will include BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphone giveaways virtually every hour on the 50-minute mark from 10-7 on Saturday and 11-6 on Sunday, free Yak 500-minute long distance calling cards to the first 50 customers, and ‘grown up’ grab bags for visitors to the store this Saturday, April 17th and Sunday, April 18th.

On the backdrop of the latest OECD study revealing that Canada ranked 30th of 30 countries in wireless penetration, Anthony Lacavera, Chairman of Globalive and WIND Mobile, Canada’s newest national wireless provider, shared his perspective on creating a globally competitive wireless industry in Canada at an address to the Empire Club today.

Speech by Anthony Lacavera

Delivered to the Empire Club of Canada, April 15, 2010

Starting today, WIND Mobile customers will have easy access to the pre-release version of the Twitter® For BlackBerry® smartphones application. WIND Mobile is the first wireless provider in Canada to formally offer the new social networking app to its BlackBerry smartphone customers.

Mayor Hazel McCallion joined WIND Mobile today for its official opening of its flagship call centre in Mississauga, welcoming WIND Mobile and callers alike to the city known for innovation in “Leading Today for Tomorrow.”