SIM Cards for Foreigners in Mexico
Last year I first posted about how foreigners travelling to Mexico might obtain a SIM card in advance, through a service offered by a company called Travelers Telecom. While I still stand behind my...
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Is your iPhone locked or unlocked?
If you purchased your iPhone for less than $300 when new, or if you didn’t consciously purchase an “unlocked” phone, you can pretty much guarantee that it was subsidized by the carrier, and is...
View ArticleRogers to Unlock iPhones After 90 Days
Rogers announced today that they will be changing their unlocking policy, which is great news for travellers and International SIM card users. Rogers customers who pay the full unsubsidized price for...
View ArticleMore SIM Card Options for Foreigners Traveling to Mexico
Many of the readers of my blog arrive here as the result of an online search for SIM cards for Mexico. A new SIM card service was brought to my attention today, so I thought I should let everyone know...
View ArticleAnother Tale of Canadian Mobile Phone Carrier Gouging
The newswire is abuzz with the latest gouging story, at the hands of Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers. Burnaby, BC resident Matt Buie recently returned from Mexico and discovered that his son’s...
View ArticleFongo Makes Bid for WIND Mobile
I’m a bit late on the draw on this one, but last month Fongo made a bid to acquire recent mobile entrant WIND Mobile for $1 plus 49% equity in Fongo. It’s hard to say whether this was a serious offer,...
View ArticleNew Canadian CRTC Wireless Code will Eliminate Bill Shock
For the past couple of years I have been blogging to Canadians and others about how to save money on international data roaming by obtaining foreign SIM cards in advance of traveling. I had expected...
View ArticleBroadening My Horizons…
For the past couple years I have been blogging about how to save money while roaming internationally with your mobile phone, by providing instructions on how to obtain cheap domestic SIM cards, and by...
View ArticleLightSpeed Cloud – Retail POS without the BS
Today, LightSpeed Retail announced their new product LightSpeed Cloud, a dramatic new offering released as an evolution of their longstanding LightSpeed Pro, Mac OS-based point-of-sale software...
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Technological enablers to support the Reshoring of outsourced manufacturing
As the capstone requirement for my recently-completed MBA degree, I was tasked with the creation of a major research paper in lieu of a thesis. The primary difference between the two is that a thesis...
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