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WIRELESS: Despite excellent growth, Videotron yearns for iPhone; iPad app coming, though

MONTREAL — Two years and $1 billion after Videotron launched its mobile service, president and CEO Robert Dépatie had a lot to brag about when speaking to a mobile conference in Montreal on Thursday. It has a client base of 400,000 that is growing by 31,000 net new clients in the past quarter and its mobile television network Lib TV, which the company qualifies as a first in Canada, has 1.3 million video views. But it's hard to write about Videotron's mobile service without mentioning Apple's iPhone, which is incompatible with its AWS technology and therefore, a hole in the...