Best Buy Mobile coming to Canada
By Simon Sage on Monday, September 15th, 2008 at 9:54 AM PST In Carriers
An invitation to Best Buy Mobile’s launch party in Canada just went out, indicating an imminent launch. They’re promising quite a bit, and would certainly save folks from having to shop around at individual carrier outlets.
- ALL current Canadian wireless network carriers
- Canada’s best selection of phones and handsets
- A complete range of mobile phone accessories
- Knowledgeable, non-commissioned mobile phone specialists
- No rebates. Actual prices are clearly marked
- WOW (Walk Out Working) service for your phone, so that customers can leave our stores with their new mobile device actually working and data transferred
- Offer straightforward information on pricing
- Be there for our customers for the life of their phone
See, being in Canada, I didn’t even know Best Buy had their own mobile brand, but it turns out that they have a 50% stake in The Carphone Warehouse, who they use to provide handsets from all the carriers of the rainbow.
[via MobileSyrup]
If they don’t sell unlocked handsets what’s the point?
The regular Best Buy along with Future Shop and The Source already shill for the carriers, and there’s another company called Wireless Wave that does the same.
None of these can compete with Toronto’s holy grail for unlocked GSM phones, Pacific Mall:
http://www.pacificmalltoronto.com/
Yea, they’ll be going directly after Wireless Wave as they will offer the exact same service
And what’s the other one? TBooth?
Anyway, stupid idea…