The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: Toronto Hydro Telecom rolls out paid WiFi

COMING OFF A SUCCESSFUL free trial that saw 43,000 subscribers sign up for its OneZone WiFi service in downtown Toronto, Toronto Hydro Telecom moved to a subscription-based service in late April. Toronto Hydro Telecom president David Dobbin (pictured below) spoke to Cartt.ca contributor Linda Stuart about OneZone, the upcoming wireless spectrum auction, and the competitiveness of Canada’s mobile communications industry. Linda Stuart: The OneZone service has been offering subscription-based services for a couple of months now. How has uptake on the subscription service gone so far? David Dobbin: Better than we expected. We originally projected a 10% month-over-month conversion rate...