Yes, we need more wireless competition.

No, globallive should NOT have been allowed to start operations.

“Law is Law” is absolutely correct in this case. Yes, I believe GL should be allowed to operate in Canada; however, there are several other companies who took time and expense to apply for their licenses.

Honestly, if there were already 3 or 4 of those new companies on the go and Globallive wasn’t “the first” to get a license, this wouldn’t even be a discussion. We need to seperate our desire for more companies from the equation here and actually look at the law.

If the law need be changed, then it need be changed in a way that’s fair to all – and i’m not talking Bell, Rogers and Telus here. I’m talking about all the players who bought a part of the spectrum during the auction.

I don’t care what telus, rogers and bell are doing with their jobs this is specifically regarding a ruling under Canadian Law. It’s disappointing to see the government just fold and overturn a ruling that was correct in the first place. Globalive should have the same laws to abide by as every other player has.

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My question is what’s the negative impact of ignoring foreign ownership rules? I’m mean you can blather on about “rules is rules” , but the “rules” haven’t stopped Bell, Rogers and Telus from funneling jobs, taxation revenue and income taxes out of Canada. To add insult to injury our tax dollars have also been used to subsidize the infrastructure that Telecos “own”. So I repeat my question, in light the Teleco’s behavior; what’s the negative impact of ignoring foreign ownership rules?

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Orascom holds a minority of Globalive’s voting shares, and all of its non-voting shares, which adds it up to 65% of its shares.

Separately, Orascom has a bunch of loans out to Globalive. The loans are, apparently, toothless — Orascom doesn’t get to dictate anything to Globalive under them, mainly because the CRTC insisted on it that way.

What Telus looks to have done is add up all of the above to try and come up with the 82%. How it becomes meaningful to combine all of that, I will never know. I have never seen this form of measurement before, and outside Telus press releases I do not expect we would be likely to: it mixes together various forms of relationship.

Is 82% a great soundbite? Absolutely. Meaningful? Not so much.

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They are so scared of WIND it’s kind of sad – what happened to their promise of great customer service – if they were as good as they think they are, they would not be so scared about a start-up? What else are they scared of? Is it because WIND is being honest and actually putting customers first and ahead of stakeholder demands?

How come you don’t here very much from Bell? – Probably because George Cope is focused on what he needs to do – continue fixing his company so that they Bell can be competitive and successful by offering great service and leading edge products.

Why is the CRTC not DEMANDING that Telus STOP laying people off (Over 3,000 in less than 2 years yet they just spent 28 million to buy Black’s?) – AND – continue moving thousands of CANADIAN jobs offshore to the Philippines and India?

WIND is trying to ADD good paying jobs to Canada, invest MILLIONS of dollars into Canada’s infrastructure because they WANT TO – AND not charge Canadians $6.95 to offset their costs – invest in Canadians, and bring more reasonable wireless prices to Canada…isn’t that enough?

Seriously CRTC – do your job and look out for the best interests of ALL Canadians – not the few that line your pockets!

Look at what FORD, GM and Chrysler did to Canada and Canadians…how many millions has the government invested to keep these companies alive? Have they not caused more harm to Canadians than WIND could ever do – it’s not like WIND is going to set up shop, add millions of people to their network, and then close up shop and go home – there are enough Wireless competitors and there is money to be made so I don’t think Canada will ever be without providers, however, if our governments cannot get their act together no one will want to invest in Canada.

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Just sayin’

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