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New spectrum transfer rules not an extension of moratorium, government says

News | 01/28/2014 10:18 pm EST

Industry Canada has not extended a five-year moratorium preventing Canada’s largest wireless providers from acquiring their smaller competitors’ airwaves, though it never said they would be able to obtain that “set-aside” spectrum after the moratorium expired, the federal government said in newly filed court documents.

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