ANALYSIS: Competition Bureau proposal is not so scary for wireless carriers (and comes with $526 million in benefits)

ISED arm twists itself into knots trying to give MVNO its stamp of approval, but this could be a good compromise IF I’M RUNNING ONE of Canada’s existing wireless companies, I’m relieved after reading the Competition Bureau’s most recent submission to the CRTC’s Wireless Policy Review. However, if I’m hoping to launch a new mobile virtual network operator once the CRTC updates said policy, I might be crying into my beer a little. After a summer of regulatory back-and-forth where the Bureau successfully fought hard for access to confidential information that only the companies themselves and CRTC staff would normally...