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Senate ‘one-size-fits-all’ spectrum deployment bill is counter-intuitive: CWTA, CanWisp, ISED

News | 03/09/2023 2:45 pm EST
Senator Dennis Glen Patterson, sponsor of Bill S-242, appears before the Senate Transport and Communications committee Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (screenshot via SenVu).

Telecom experts say that a Senate bill that would force spectrum licence holders to deploy service to at least 50 per cent of its geographic population within three years of acquiring a licence will harm Canada’s connectivity goals rather than strengthen them.

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