Carriers praise ISED decision forcing access to TTC wireless network by October 3

By Ahmad Hathout TORONTO – Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced Monday that all carriers will need to provide service to their customers on Rogers’s wireless network in Toronto’s subway system by October 3. All carriers will need to provide service within three weeks from Monday and will have to enter commercial agreements within the next 100 days – or December 20. Those stipulations, which will apply to Bell, Quebecor's Freedom and Telus, are as of Monday conditions of those carriers owning spectrum, the technology powering wireless communications. Government officials said on a technical briefing with media Monday that carriers will...