Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wireless consolidation?

Public Mobile seems likely to end up being acquired by one of the incumbents: Rogers Communications, BCE or Telus. He casts DAVE - short for Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Wireless - and Yak owner Globalive as potential merger partners.Of course, regular readers of this blog will recall that there is a poison pill in place for the new entrants:
While all licence transfers must be approved by the Minister, licences obtained through the set-aside may not be transferred to companies that do not meet the criteria of a new entrant for a period of 5 years from the date of issuance.Public Mobile, acquired spectrum in the G-block, which was not part of the set-aside, so this clause does not apply to them.
Wireless competition will be a major theme at The 2009 Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto. The leaders of DAVE Wireless, Globalive and Public Mobile will all be appearing June 17 on a panel being moderated by Simon Avery of The Globe and Mail. Have you registered yet?
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