Here’s something that’ll hopefully stir some things up with the Canadian wireless market. Currently there are 3 major players in the Canadian wireless communications industry: Bell (BCE), Rogers, and Telus. Wind Mobile applied to be the fourth, but got denied by the CRTC on the grounds that the parent company, Globalive doesn’t have enough Canadian control in its company’s structure.

However, on Friday, Industry Minister Tony Clement overthrew that decision, claiming that after going through their case several times over, they have come to the conclusion that Globalive has enough Canadian control to operate in Canada.

Rumor has it that Wind Mobile is ready to mobilize and will be ready to launch before Christmas this year, which would mean that there is a lot of pressure on the Big 3.

What does this mean for us as consumers?

As the saying goes: the more, the merrier!

In other words, having more competition will push the other “Big 3″ to reduce their prices and/or improve their services, if they want to remain competitive.

Pricing

Prices can be found at http://shop.windmobile.ca/ProductCatalog/VoicePlans/ for their voice plans