SPECTRUM AUCTION: New comments are the same, but different

THE ARGUMENTS FILED yesterday with Industry Canada on each side of the advanced wireless spectrum auction debate haven't changed in a month, but circumstances have. Reply comments on the spectrum auction framework were due into the ministry yesterday. As most will recall, the established players want an unfettered auction for new spectrum that will enable all sorts of new applications and services beyond just voice while potential newcomers want it good and fettered. The fight is still the same.The three incumbents, Bell Canada, Rogers Communications and Telus, all argue the same thing as they did 36 days ago: That an...