Wind Mobile

Wind Mobile was the wireless network of Globalive, a Toronto company founded by Anthony Lacavera. In Canada's 2008 spectrum auction Globalive bid $442 million for 3G spectrum at 1,700 MHz. Most of its money came from Orascom Telecom Holding, the network was managed by Wind Telecom, and its first chief executive was Ken Campbell, formerly of Vodafone and Orascom.

The CRTC then ruled that Globalive didn't meet Canada's ownership rules, citing the $508 million it owed Orascom. The federal cabinet overrode that ruling on December 11, 2009, and Wind launched in Toronto on December 16 and in Calgary two days later. Edmonton, Ottawa and Vancouver followed in 2010. The Federal Court ruled against the cabinet's decision on February 4, 2011, and the Federal Court of Appeal later restored it.

Wind passed 100,000 subscribers in July 2010 and reached about 600,000 by January 2013. VimpelCom, which had agreed to take over Orascom's stake, sold its majority holding in 2014 to AAL Acquisitions, a company controlled by Lacavera, for $135 million plus $150 million of Wind's debt. Shaw Communications then bought Wind's parent, Mid-Bowline Group, for about $1.6 billion, and completed the deal on March 1, 2016.

On November 21, 2016, Shaw renamed Wind as Freedom Mobile, citing rising royalty fees for the Wind name and a wish to leave its "baggage" behind, and launched LTE in Toronto and Vancouver the same day. Wind's own network had run 3G HSPA on AWS spectrum at 1,700 and 2,100 MHz.