CTS 2009: Wireless newcomers push back launches but see plenty of opportunity

TORONTO – New wireless entrants are most likely to fail if they “look and smell like an incumbent,” one of the new Advanced Wireless Services spectrum licensees warned his fellow competitors during the final panel session at the Canadian Telecom Summit on Wednesday afternoon. Top executives from Globalive Communications, DAVE Wireless and Public Mobile came together for a discussion about the challenges they will face as their companies prepare to launch new wireless offerings by the end of 2009 or early in 2010. Although not as volatile as the incumbent-heavy “regulatory blockbuster” session held on Tuesday, the AWS session had...