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www.huffingtonpost.ca/20 ··· 534.htmlThe CEO of one of Canadas three small wireless companies has jumped into the fray over Verizons possible entry into Canada, accusing the Big Three of running a ridiculous campaign of misinformation in order to protect themselves from competition.
In a rebuttal to the Big Three's claims that the rules for an upcoming spectrum auction are "unfair," Anthony Lacavera, the chief executive officer of Wind Mobile, noted in a blog post »
windmobileblog.com/2013/ ··· reality/ Tuesday that the Big Three were given their original wireless spectrum by the government for free. Lacavera then systematically set out to demolish many of the Big Threes claims.
In the early days of cellphones and wireless technology the government simply gave them bucketloads of Canadian spectrum for free, Lacavera wrote.
He was evidently referring to the original 1985 allocation of the 800 mHz spectrum, which the federal government did indeed hand out to Rogers Cantel (now Rogers Wireless) and to Canadas local phone companies, two of which are now Bell Mobility and Telus.
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I had written to Tony long ago urging him to use exactly this argument in discussions with the Feds to help level the playing field for the existing new entrants. I've also posted about this here before »
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