COMMENTARY: Why Canadian wireless customers deserve more than narrow economic dogma

By John Lawford and Geoffrey WhiteJOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH WROTE: “Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” Case in point: even though the 700 MHz auction is over, and most of the AWS new entrants have been swallowed up by the Big Three, or are about to be, business appears to still be thriving for some economists intent on knocking the Government’s attempts to instill more competition in Canada’s wireless sector.For the most part these type of reports offer a paternalistic, if not patronizing, view of the consumer interest. The story, or at least the implied one,...