UPDATED: Shaw takes the wireless plunge, buying Wind for $1.6B

CALGARY and TORONTO – Shaw Communications announced late Wednesday it has agreed to purchase Wind Mobile.After spending a number of years contemplating wireless, buying spectrum and then starting to build, then stopping and finally divesting its spectrum earlier this year (which it will now re-take ownership of with this deal), Shaw Communications will be the seventh Canadian communications carrier offering a quad-play of TV, internet, home phone and wireless (in its larger Alberta and B.C. centres, that is).(Officially, Shaw has agreed to acquire a 100% interest in Mid-Bowline Group Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Wind Mobile Corp. for an enterprise...