WIRELESS: CWTA calls for open auction, too

OTTAWA – While the Canadian telecom world meets this week at the Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association today echoed many of its members in calling on the Canadian government to ensure the 2008 Advanced Wireless Services spectrum auction is ``open and free of artificial measures.`` Ottawa has announced it will auction off AWS spectrum in 2008, and the CWTA is worried about how it will be done, as has been chronicled by Cartt.ca. “To continue stimulating innovation and investment, the federal government must create a level playing field for all companies seeking to acquire AWS...