The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that over the past decade, the government and the CRTC have adopted various policies aimed at increasing the number of players in the wireless sector. Guest columnist Martin Masse and Paul Beaudry write that the feds now want the CRTC to provide regulatory privileges to resellers of wireless services. Resellers are small players with no wireless network of their own that instead lease access from larger players. Wireless providers are obliged to offer wholesale roaming on their networks to other wireless providers at regulated prices. However, the CRTC has always refrained from forcing providers to share their networks. Ottawa has asked the CRTC to reconsider its decision in a recent dispute between Rogers and small reseller Sugar Mobile. The latter, whose clients use their devices primarily by connecting to public and private WiFi networks, wanted this "WiFi first" arrangement to count as an infrastructure of its own. The CRTC, in its original decision, wisely rejected this reasoning. Mandating larger carriers to enter into resale agreements at regulated rates would be misguided, as it would undermine these carriers' incentives to invest and innovate.