Here's a story from May 26, 2008 that I think a lot of people may have missed. There was a lot of talk about the US wireless market and how Google might be grabbing a piece of the pie, but not so much news from the Canadian end.

As Industry Canada's wireless spectrum auction begins on Tuesday market observers say that regardless of the emergence of new competition, it will be business as usual for the country's three incumbent telecommunications companies.

Much to the chagrin of Rogers Communications Inc., Telus Corp. and the recently beleaguered BCE Inc., Jim Prentice, the Minister of Industry, gave Canadians an unexpected gift this past November when he announced that about 40% of the available airwaves in the auction would be set aside for new entrants.

Read more @ FinancialPost

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