The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition Bob Hillman builds cellphone towers that cost only $100,000 compared with full-scale towers that can run more than $1-million apiece. The Globe's Christine Dobby writes Mr. Hillman, chief executive officer of upstart RuralCom Corp., says that by the end of June, he plans to have 40 such cellular sites in place along parts of the Alaska Highway and the B.C. North Coast. He says he has signed 80 agreements with international carriers eager to offer their customers coverage along the coast, which hosts about a million cruise passengers a year, as well as the trucking route along the highway. There is local service, but most of its revenue will come from roaming. Mr. Hillman needed access to the radiowaves used to carry signals from the cell sites to and from customers. For that, he turned to a barely used regulatory policy that lets outsiders claim a licence for spectrum covering areas where the incumbent wireless providers are not deploying cellular service. In 2005, he approached Rogers Communications to negotiate access to airwaves in the remote B.C. areas that Rogers was not using. Industry Canada eventually awarded RuralCom two licences in 2009.