Cable / Telecom News

Bell to Ottawa: Play fair and close wireless policy “loopholes”

MONTREAL – Bell Canada is the latest incumbent to voice its dissatisfaction with the federal government’s wireless policy framework, and today called on the government to reconfigure that policy to amend the “loopholes” that favour foreign wireless carriers over Canadian incumbents. "Federal wireless policies intended to help small startup competitors unintentionally give the same advantages to major US wireless companies that want to enter Canada – advantages paid for by Canadians and denied to the country's major wireless carriers. With the potential impact on the country's airwaves and infrastructure, it's an unprecedented situation that affects all Canadians," Bell Canada president...