We bought spectrum in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario in the spectrum licence auction for the 3,500-megahertz band. We will begin to deploy 5G for this spectrum.
There were subsequent auctions, which were called the 3,800-megahertz band spectrum licence auctions. They're still relatively recent. We haven't even paid the full cost yet; we've paid 20%. The auction took place in November and lasted about a month. The licences acquired in these auctions will also be the subject of a service rollout in the years to come.
Spectrum is an asset, an important public good that is inescapable for telecommunications operators. Technology is deployed gradually. We can't install everything at once. This spectrum will be used for speed and throughput. I'm not an engineer, but as far as I know, some of the low-frequency spectra, such as 600 megahertz, will be used for throughput, while the high-frequency ones will be used for speed. A combination of the two enables us to transport huge amounts of digital data, that is to say gigabytes. In fact, this is increasingly the main use we make of our wireless devices. Their use for voice is declining. What's on the rise is digital data, whether for Netflix, texting, e-mail or downloads. That's the big deal.