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CTS 2015: Industry must stop bickering with itself, Ottawa – and be friends

TORONTO - “Why can’t we be friends?” Wind Mobile CEO Alek Krstajic asked delegates to the Canadian Telecom Summit in a luncheon keynote on Tuesday.The 1975 song by War actually played him off the stage at the end of his speech, but the theme hung in the air: Why can’t the industry accept what’s coming from Ottawa and just compete for the affections of Canadians on a level playing field that the Conservative government helped build?Krstajic has been through the wars. Many of them, really. He spent years working for Rogers Cable before moving to Bell Canada and then ran...