700 MHz auction not until late 2012, after more work on foreign investment rules, says Clement

OTTAWA – Perhaps too much was expected of Industry Minister Tony Clement’s speech at the International Institute of Communications Canadian chapter conference on Monday.Post-speech, we were asked by our tablemates for an initial headline. Our first response? “Meh”.To be fair, there are a range of complex items on the minister’s plate that reaches into the telecom, content and digital industry, from new copyright bill C-32, to foreign ownership, to spectrum concerns, to rural broadband to the digital economy strategy launched in May that will touch every industry when it is released this spring.The hope heading into his Monday talk was...