Finance committee  Everyone would like lower cost to capital. Ours may be lower than theirs, but you always want a lower cost to capital. That's the first point. What I'm saying is actually being misconstrued in many respects, because what we are saying is the rules are lifted for these folks. Good.

Finance committee  I think the private sector should be tasked with delivering to public safety the networks they need rather than setting aside specific spectrum for public safety only. That should at least be considered.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I didn't know where that was going.

Finance committee  The services that stakeholders like AT&T; provide are more expensive in the United States. Why would they be cheaper in Canada?

Finance committee  I think the bad rap that wireless companies are getting was particularly bad in 2007, 2008, and 2009. I think it's considerably better through a lot of education about the fact that we are world leaders in the technology we offer. In fact, if you sweep away the empty rhetoric and look at the facts on the ground, our pricing is very good.

Finance committee  We have seen that people think the market in the United States is more open than it is here in Canada. There are two national players in the United States, and there are three in Canada. However, people claim that the Canadian market is closed. As for us, we provided services for the new HSPA+ and LTE technologies before the United States.

Finance committee  The best-case scenario is that each of the national players obtains 700 MHz of spectrum. While my friends talk about how the three national players have a lot of spectrum compared with them.... None of us has 700 MHz, and 700 MHz is what we need to deliver national wireless broadband to all small towns and communities and to the large centres.

Finance committee  If the large international competitors come into the urban areas, it is absolutely crystal clear that we're going to have to devote all our resources there, because without making the profits in urban areas, we can't go to rural areas. We're going to deploy all our resources there and we're going to leave the rural areas with what they have today—which is fantastic service, because right now it's a world-class service, but in three years it's not going to be a world-class service; it will be 2009 service.

Finance committee  If it doesn't happen, my proposed fix does no harm.

Finance committee  If we can get two blocks, yes, Bell Canada will be obliged to build a wireless network, the new LTE technology, on 97% of our territory. So, for us, it would be realistic if we get two blocks.

Finance committee  If Bell Canada gets one block and Telus gets one block and we agree to share them—those are the three conditions—in this case, we will be obliged to build a network on 97% of our territory. As I said in response to your first question, if we get two blocks, whether we got them or combined the two blocks, in this case, yes.

Finance committee  Rogers has the opportunity of getting two blocks as well: they can buy them or partner with my colleagues here. They can partner with WIND Mobile, with Vidéotron in Quebec, with Shaw out west, with EastLink in the east. They can also partner with Telus or Bell Canada. Nothing has been established for the future.

Finance committee  Foreign ownership didn't come up, no.

Finance committee  We talked about competition, telecom generally, deregulation, and those kinds of issues, but that was more about traditional home phone deregulation, primarily—