Industry committee  Northern Saskatchewan is probably a little different from Alberta. The populations tend to be congregated, so they're easier to serve, and we're able to serve them with fibre. We have fibre that goes along the roadway, such as for La Ronge. We have fibre that goes up to La Ronge,

Industry committee  We do still have some applications to Connect to Innovate. They haven't dealt with the Saskatchewan applications yet. There is some backbone in there for which some assistance is being requested, because there is no business case to provide that backbone. In this case, it's runni

Industry committee  We have not deployed unlicensed spectrum for our fixed—

Industry committee  We're not using unlicensed spectrum. We are using licensed spectrum.

Industry committee  I did speak to our spectrum engineer the other day. It's a question of interference and quality of service. There are no guarantees. When people come to SaskTel for service, they're looking for something that's very robust.

Industry committee  Industry Canada is going to auction it off. They say there is a cap of 60 MHz. Our issue is that the spectrum in the 2,500 band is not all created equally. You have the single band in the middle that we're not using for cellular. It doesn't have the up and the down. That's the on

Industry committee  Yes. They're saying we have too much.

Industry committee  Right, and the cap is in that particular band, the 2,500 band.

Industry committee  That's what we chose for the fixed wire, for offering the service, yes. The problem is that the equipment we bought is Huawei equipment, so it's carrier grade, but it only works on the 2,500 at the moment. We're not eligible, and we have stop sales on sectors.

Industry committee  Yes. We will not be permitted to bid.

Industry committee  Right. You've heard some of the other folks in the previous testimony talk about congestion with fixed wireless. We avoid that by stopping selling. We do not add more customers, so we're telling people today, “We can't provide you service because we don't have enough spectrum”.

Industry committee  Yes, it's cellular spectrum versus fixed wireless spectrum. I think I have to add, too, because I read all that about the big companies hogging the spectrum—

Industry committee  —that there is a process with Industry Canada to be able to challenge the holder of the spectrum to say, “You're not deploying it; I'd like to deploy it”. and you can force it through Industry Canada to be able to get the sub-licence for that area you're interested in.

Industry committee  It's typically deep rural.

Industry committee  In terms of cellular, I would say no. This process doesn't occur with the fixed.