Cable / Telecom News

Get reading: Consultation process starts for 600MHz spectrum auction


OTTAWA — Those in the telecom industry who didn’t get an early start to their civic long weekend (or don’t have any leisure plans at all for the next three days) may be able to get a jump on reading the federal government’s consultation paper regarding the proposed auction of 600MHz band spectrum.Late Friday afternoon, the government issued a press release in which the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED), announced a consultation process for proposals to auction 600MHz spectrum, and made available the government’s most-recent consultation paper on the matter. (We estimate the consultation...