Iristel to launch wireless service in Eastern Quebec, Northern Ontario, after I-Mobileca buy

QUEBEC CITY - Iristel said Monday that it will soon offer facilities-based wireless competition in Eastern Quebec and Northern Ontario after acquiring I-Mobileca Inc. and its licensed spectrum. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Based in Trois Rivières, I-Mobileca holds spectrum licenses covering the Kirkland Lake region in Ontario and in the Lower Saint-Lawrence, the Gaspésie, the North Shore, and certain areas of the Beauce in Eastern Quebec. The company currently focuses on wireless data for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications.Iristel, parent company of Ice Wireless, said that the area covered by the new spectrum has a population of about 535,000,...