CWTA 2011: Wind wants spectrum, tower sharing; industry growth coming in mobile commerce, health

By Perry Hoffman

OTTAWA - Wind Mobile used a wireless event in Ottawa on Tuesday to reinforce the view that it needs access to more spectrum and a better regime for tower and cell site sharing. Speaking on a wireless technology panel at the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association’s Wireless Technology Showcase, Ante Rupcic, VP of core networks for Wind Mobile, said it needs access to large chunks of spectrum during the next round of licensing. “It’s essential that we, too, get a fair stake of additional spectrum. Again, not these small chunks of spectrum, it has to be reasonable bands, reasonable channel sizes...