Top News Stories involving Bell Mobility—Week ending May 7, 2010

– When you pick up your Apple iPad after it goes on sale in Canada on May 28, 2010, you’ll be able to get a data plan designed for it by Bell Mobility. Details about specific functionality and pricing of the data plans are not available as yet, but the plans will enable users to access 3G wireless networks. You can order your iPad from Apple as early as May 10. (From “FP Tech Desk: Bell Mobility will offer iPad plans to compete with Rogers,” by Matt Hartley on FP Posted, accessed May 8, 2010 at http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpposted/archive/2010/05/07/fp-tech-desk-bell-mobility-will-offer-ipad-plans-to-compete-with-rogers.aspx.)

– Bell Mobility‘s business activity is helping strengthen its Montreal-based parent, BCE, Inc. BCE’s first-quarter profit margin of 65 cents per share is supported by Bell Mobility’s purchase of The Source, an electronics chain it bought last year. In addition to selling its handsets through The Source’s 750 outlets, Bell also began offering Apple’s iPhone® last November and carried out extensive advertising during the Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, BC. Bell also recruited more than 80,000 new wireless subscribers in 2009. (From “BCE Profit Beats Estimates on New Stores, iPhone (Update1),” ©2010 Bloomberg News, posted Thursday, May 6, 2010, by SFGate, Business Report, The Chronicle with Bloomberg, accessed May 8, 2010, at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/05/06/bloomberg1376-L1ZWE80UQVI9-1.DTL.)

If you’re a Bell Mobility customer with a Novatel MiFi 2372 – there’s a good chance your encountering issues with the battery.  If you are you should turn your phone in for repairs. You’ll receive a prepaid, pre-addressed envelope from Bell to use in returning your phone through the mail. Bell deactivated the devices on May 3, 2010 after discovering that the battery may swell and cause phones to malfunction. It will take six to eight weeks to fix your battery, but Bell will give you a Novatel U998 Turbo Stick to use during that time. You’ll ultimately receive your repaired battery along with a new battery cover. (From “Bell Novatel MiFi 2372 “battery may swell… customers asked to discontinue use,” posted by Kate O’Brien on April 30, 2010, accessed via Mobile Syrup on May 8, 2010, at http://mobilesyrup.com/2010/04/30/bell-novatel-mifi-2372-battery-may-swell-customers-asked-to-discontinue-use/)

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