SPECTRUM: Wind calls auction cap proposal from Telus "laughable"

By Perry Hoffman

TORONTO - Wind Mobile has taken issue with the wireless spectrum auction caps proposal put forward by Telus, saying there is nothing fair about it. “Caps are no different than an open auction,” Simon Lockie, chief regulatory officer at Wind, told Cartt.ca in an interview. The fact that Telus is advocating for caps should speak volumes to their true position, Lockie says. Since the Big Three (Rogers, Bell and Telus) don’t really compete with each other and stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in enterprise value (based on analysis from the investment banking community) as a result of...