600 MHz: Is the frustrating U.S. spectrum auction the model Canada wants to follow?

Bains didn’t say last weekWHEN IT COMES TO auctioning off our 600 MHz broadcast spectrum (expected to begin sometime in 2017), Canada may not, in fact, want to copy what the Americans have done.That's because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has run into some frustrating delays in trying to sell off large chunks of surplus 600 MHz spectrum from TV broadcasters currently using the airwaves to wireless carriers in the U.S. this year. As a result, the complicated auction process, which started early last spring, is now expected to drag on until at least through early next year.Unlike the previous...