Wireless operators are taking issue with Industry Canada’s proposal to charge licence fees on a per-MHz-per person basis for fixed services operating in the 25.25 to 28.35 MHz spectrum band.

“It means you pay more money to do the same job just because [the antenna] goes near a larger group of people. But you aren’t serving a larger group of people,” Telus Communications Company spokesman Jim Johannsson told The Wire Report.

In May 2010, Industry Canada launched a consultation on the use of the 25.25 to 28.35 MHz band, a large portion of which was previously unassigned.

Contact Ryan O'Neill at 613-232-5952 ext. 222 or roneill@thewirereport.ca
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