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COMMENTARY: Ignore the false choices

Regulators have a real option to improve canada’s mobile wireless marketplace by Marie Ginette Lepage WHEN IT COMES TO THE future of our nation’s mobile wireless telecommunications market, Canadian regulators are fast-approaching an important crossroads. Recent debate, seen on Cartt.ca and elsewhere, has been focused on the idea Canada’s regulators face a terrible trade-off, in which the only way to provide consumers with more competition and choice is to do so at the expense of further investment and expansion of networks. That would certainly be a difficult choice to make, particularly in a country like Canada, where many rural and...