Cable / Telecom News

UBS launches suit against Bell Canada and Rogers over spectrum rights


TORONTO – UBS Wireless Services yesterday filed a statement of claim in Ontario Superior Court against the Inukshuk Wireless partnership. UBS Wireless is a subsidiary of Unique Broadband Services (as is Look Communications) while Inukshuk is 50-50 owned by Bell Canada and Rogers Communications. The statement of claim, says the UBS press release issued late Thursday, seeks a mandatory order requiring the Inukshuk Partnership to return to Fido Solutions (formerly Microcell Telecommunications) any and all rights or licences to use or exploit the Inukshuk Multipoint Communications Systems (MCS) Spectrum and such other, interim, interlocutory or final relief as may be...