WIRELESS: Spectrum auction decision time at Industry Canada

OTTAWA – The Minister of Industry will receive a blizzard of paper tomorrow as incumbent wireless operators, and those who would like to be one, submit their opinions on how the next auction of wireless spectrum should be run.The newcomers, led jointly by Quebecor and MTS Allstream, have not backed off their rhetoric at all. They want into the fast-growing wireless market and they don't want to pay through the nose for entry with a costly purchase of spectrum at auction.Keying on a few lines from the 2006 Telecom Policy Review Report (the one which the Conservative government has used...