The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition Wind Mobile and Mobilicity are set to face off over airwaves reserved for new entrant wireless carriers in the first of two spectrum auctions the Canadian government plans to hold this year. The Globe's Christine Dobby quotes Wind as saying Thursday it has submitted a deposit and will participate in the auction for licences in the AWS-3 frequency band. The deadline for deposits is Friday. Meanwhile, Mobilicity, which is under creditor protection, secured court approval Wednesday for a new debt-financing agreement worth $65-million that will allow it to make a refundable deposit and register for the auction as well. Ottawa has structured the AWS-3 auction to benefit small players, reserving 30 megahertz, or 60 per cent, of the total 50 MHz available for companies that are already providing wireless services but have less than 10 per cent of national market share and less than 20 per cent of market share by province. That rules out regional incumbents Manitoba Telecom Services and SaskTel. Mobilicity and Wind are the only two players that appear to qualify to bid on the new entrant licences in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta.