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Wireless Review: While agreeing with the Competition Bureau, Shaw says new win-back rules are needed


By Greg O'Brien GATINEAU – If you’re looking for drama, day one of the CRTC’s wireless policy review hearing was not for you. That’s not to say it was boring, however. During the morning session, we got an engaged CRTC chair Ian Scott taking a deep, detailed dive into the Competition Bureau’s evidence as well as its idea for mandating a tempered vision for mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Canada. The Bureau is not for broadly mandating an MVNO structure where any company that comes along wanting to sign up wireless subs using a CRTC-decree as the crowbar can...