The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition the race is on for incumbents in the wireless business to buy up the spectrum that was supposed to be set aside for new competitors. The Globe's Boyd Erman writes Telus wants to buy Mobilicity, and Rogers wants to buy the spectrum that Shaw bought. Mr. Erman says the feds have five options. First, give up on competition; admit failure. On a market level, it is not working. Second, the feds could block the Telus and Rogers deals to buy upstarts. The risk is companies like Mobilicity fail outright. Third, be more heavy handed regulating tower sharing and roaming. The government could more tightly enforce rules that are supposed to help the upstarts by, for example, giving them access to the incumbents' towers. At this point, however, it is probably not enough to really save any of the upstarts. Four, try another, lower cost way of creating rivals to BCE, Rogers and Telus. Instead of trying to create rivals with their own networks and spectrum, an expensive undertaking, the government could mandate mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access to incumbent networks. Five, allow the big companies to be bought out by changing foreign investment rules.