Lord tells government to back off on wireless

TORONTO – The Canadian wireless market is a competitive success story that doesn’t require micro-managing from any level of government, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association president Bernard Lord told the Toronto Board of Trade on Monday. Saying “we need to be mindful of the risk of economic engineering experiments that could change that value for our country and for Canadians,” the text of Lord’s speech noted that the Canadian market is growing well and serving Canadians nicely as “smartphone adoption continues at a very rapid pace. We’ve gone from a penetration of just 36% two years ago to over 66%...