
Globalive, a Canadian company was primarily financed by an Egyptian corporation, Orascom Telecom Holding, and managed by Wind Telecom S.p.A., which owns a number of other "Wind" brand telecommunications companies. 1.9 2016–17: Purchase by Shaw, Freedom Mobile name change.1.8 2015: Attempted merger with Mobilicity, spectrum acquisitions and transfers.1.7 2014: Recapitalization, investors buy out Vimpelcom/Wind Telecom stake.1.4 2011: Orascom sells to Vimpelcom, First CEO Campbell resigns, Court proceedings, VimpelCom, Ontario expansion and Windtab+.1.3 2010: Robbins resigns, creation of urban networks, 100K subscribers and Windtab.1.2 2009: Network tests, government approval, retail partnership and launch.Since then, Southern Ontario has been the main target of network expansion: first with Ottawa in Q1 2011, and then with about half a dozen additional regions, the most recently being Cornwall, Cobourg, Belleville, Trenton, Brockville, and Pembroke on March 8, 2019. It initially launched mobile data and voice services in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Ontario on December 16, 2009, and two days later in Calgary, Alberta. įounded in 2008 as Wind Mobile by the telecommunications company Globalive, Freedom was one of several new mobile carriers launched in Canada in 2008 after a government initiative to encourage competition in the wireless sector alongside Mobilicity (later acquired by Rogers Communications) and Public Mobile (later acquired by Telus). Freedom Mobile is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in Canada, with 2,188,845 subscribers as of February 28, 2022. It has 6% market share of Canada, mostly in urban areas of Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. is a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider owned by Shaw Communications. We continue the initial dream of seeing a well-coordinated, mobilized and effective response in Europe so that survivors can be restored and human trafficking can be stopped once and for all.Freedom Mobile Inc. Our members and partners represent organizations of all shapes and sizes and they work in all areas of combating human trafficking and commercial exploitation.

Since our initial beginnings in Stockholm, EFN has grown as a truly international network made up of partner and member organizations in over 40 nations. This legal entity was formed in January 2017.

We wanted to focus our collaborative efforts on changing policy at both national, European and UN levels and we needed a legal entity in order to represent us. The Operational Team approved this decision in 2016 so that EFN could be ready to present ourselves as a leading-edge, knowledgeable, and expert voice on human trafficking and sexual exploitation to government bodies and media. In November 2015, a key gathering of partners took place in Berlin which helped set the identity and course for EFN, including a decision to form EFN as an official non-profit organization. Our attendance at the conferences steadily increased from our initial 90 in Bulgaria to over 200 in Pescara, Italy. The network began to attract more attention and interested partners which was evidenced at our regular Bridge conferences that were held in Cyprus (2013), Bucharest, Romanian (2015), Berlin, Germany (2017) and Pescara Italy (2019). With the help of the European Evangelical Alliance the dream soon became a reality in 2012, when almost 90 different individuals and organizations gathered in Sofia, Bulgaria to strategize and design what would become the European Freedom Network. In 2011, a group of anti-trafficking professionals gathered in Stockholm, Sweden and started initial conversations about what it would take to coordinate and mobilise anti-trafficking efforts around Europe. The European Freedom Network began with a dream.
