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Globe says Big Three enjoy rapid data growth

2015-05-04 08:51 ET - In the News

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The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition since taking power in 2006, the Conservative government has made stoking competition in the industry a priority. The Globe's Christine Dobby writes the feds have reserved airwaves for small players and used increasingly strict rules to force the Big Three to share access to their cellphone towers and allow new entrants to roam on their networks. Ottawa is conducting its third auction of mobile airwaves in the span of little more than a year for airwaves in the 2,500-megahertz band. It has said that by the time the dust settles, the amount of spectrum available for wireless services will have increased by 60 per cent since the beginning of 2014. While the Big Three together held 98 per cent of available mobile spectrum in 2006, thanks to the recent deluge of airwaves, the government expects new players to control 25 per cent by this summer. Managing spectrum has also taken on heightened significance in recent years as consumer demand for Internet data grows exponentially. Mobile data traffic in Canada in 2019 is expected to be seven times higher than it was in 2014. Four years from now, Canadians will use 207 million gigabytes of mobile data a month.

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