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CTS 2011: Videotron has its own spectrum auction cap plan

TORONTO – Robert Dépatie doesn’t exactly see eye-to-eye with Rob Bruce.A day after Bruce, the president of the cable and wireless arm of Rogers Communications, called for no restrictions on the Canadian government’s upcoming auction of 700 MHz spectrum, Dépatie, the president and CEO of Videotron, called for definitive restrictions on the auction. Specifically, Dépatie made the case for an in-band spectrum cap for 700 MHz bidders while speaking at the Canadian Telecom Summit on Wednesday morning.As the company has spelled out for Industry Canada as it prepares to write the rules of the 700 MHz spectrum auction, Dépatie proposed...