Bureaucrats, incumbents, stand in the way of telecom development, says Quebecor's Peladeau

By Glenn Wanamaker

MONTREAL – While Quebecor is ready and able to propel wireless telecommunications to new heights, the federal government stands in the way by hindering development, says Quebecor President and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau.In a speech Thursday to a Quebec Chamber of Commerce business outlook conference, Péladeau said (in French, of course) that other industrialized countries have seen the need to invest in new telecommunications technology, but more than a year after Ottawa raked in $4 billion from the distribution of new spectrum licences, the federal bureaucracy is erecting roadblocks to the development of a new generation of telecommunications infrastructure.“Canadians deserve...