5 questions with Gregory Taylor: thinking boldly about our public airwaves

Today, the government will announce who will bid on the upcoming spectrum auction in January 2014. The CMG has urged the government to focus on what Canadians need from their airwaves, for example by reserving some spectrum in the 700 MHz band (the one to be auctioned) for public, community and educational use. Also of interest is the proposal this summer from Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (now merged in the new union, Unifor) that the government set up a fourth provider, a publicly-owned carrier in the interest of Canadians. These ideas are worth exploring if the goals of enhanced competition and access for Canadians who rely on these public airwaves are to be achieved.

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