Security issues shouldn’t put an urgent discussion of foreign ownership limits on the backburner, delegates at the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association’s Communications 2001 were told. While the foreign ownership issue has taken a backseat to national protection in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., wireless carriers are still in agreement that the time for action on relaxing current rules is now.

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