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Industry waiting on detail from gov’t on wireless price drop

News | 01/15/2020 6:14 pm EST
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains speaks with reporters in Ottawa in December 2018./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

If Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wants to see a 25-per-cent reduction in wireless prices starting from December 2019 as he clarified this week the best way is to maintain a hands-off approach that has seen a reduction of 28 per cent in wireless prices since 2016, according to the industry’s main lobby. 

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