Canada’s Industry Minister, Christian Paradis, yesterday announced that the federal government will remove foreign ownership restrictions on the country’s smaller telecoms network operators – those with a 10% market share or less in revenue terms – ahead of a crucial 4G mobile frequency licence auction which he said is scheduled for the first half of 2013. Alongside confirmation of the rough timetable for auctioning 700MHz ‘digital dividend’ band spectrum and 2.5GHz-2.6GHz frequencies, the minister also announced that individual spectrum caps will be applied to the upcoming licensing process to prevent the larger, established operators from monopolising the bandwidth. However, the decision stopped short of reserving certain portions of 4G spectrum for newer market entrants, a measure which had been lobbied for by some of the smaller players
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OVETEL Government allows full foreign ownership of smaller telcos; sets 4G spectrum cap for auction in H1 2013
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