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Consumers want more wireless competition, Videotron poll says


TORONTO – A poll of consumers conducted for Vidéotron shows they think that wireless services are too expensive and they want the government to open up the field to more competitors. The Praxicus Public Strategies survey of 1,000 Canadians conducted last weekend shows that 62% of them think wireless is too expensive, including 38% who think it’s “very expensive.” Services would get cheaper if there were more competitors, said Vidéotron. More than 70% of those surveyed want the federal government to reserve a portion of additional frequencies for new entrants into wireless when it holds its spectrum auction later this...