Investing in wireless technology is the key to innovation in Canada

Investment in mobile wireless networks is essential to Canada’s ability to participate in the global digital economy, and policies should foster such development, not impede it.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has tasked the CRTC with reconsidering its decision on allowing WiFi-based mobile virtual network operators mandated roaming access to big wireless providers’ networks.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Given Canada’s vast territory and large land mass, our need to find ways to stay in touch has been the driver of many a Canadian innovation, from the telephone to the first transatlantic wireless signal to mobile email. Today, telecommunications is a vital th...

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