Cable / Telecom News

Wireless Review: Former Big Three exec blasts large carriers’ “laughable” threats


CCSA says mandated access to 5G nets is a must for rural GATINEAU – In advising the CRTC to mandate just one national MVNO to boost mobile wireless competition here, three former wireless and telecom executives said threats from the big national players about reduced investments and job cuts are not to be taken seriously. “The market is so clearly dominated by the Big Three ,” Alek Krstajic, the former Freedom CEO and past executive at Bell and Rogers, told CRTC commissioners at the beginning of the second week of the Regulator’s review of the wireless industry. “In fact, when...