Industry committee  I can speak specifically to the proceeding in front of the CRTC. What was extremely helpful for us in making the recommendations that we made to the CRTC was the ability for us to get data from market participants so we could do our analyses and base our recommendations on those analyses.

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. Madam Chair, our analysis was really about trying to get competition out to every community in Canada. We found that if you can get strong regional players into every community in Canada, Canadians can benefit from the competition that we're seeing in particular areas of Canada.

Industry committee  What I can add is essentially what we have put forward in our submission. One of the largest findings in our submission is that when you have a market with a strong regional competitor present, you will find that there are price drops in the range of 35% to 40%. The remedy we suggested to the CRTC was a remedy that was intended to make that price competition happen in more markets across Canada so that more Canadians can benefit from that type of competition and that type of price lowering.

Industry committee  I'm happy to answer that question. Our analysis in the wireless sector for the submission that we made to the CRTC was really focused on how you get more regional players into more markets across Canada. What we found is that facilities-based competition is the best type of competition.

Industry committee  Yes, we are aware of that. Essentially, MVNOs are competitors who have to rely on their competitors for a necessary input into their business. They're relying on their competitors to access spectrum. If we can create a way for there to be independent competitors in the marketplace so that they're not relying on anyone else in the marketplace—they're able to control their prices and they're able to control their network quality entirely—then we can potentially see the same type of price decrease that we saw in our analysis, which was up to 35% or 40% if you can get a strong regional player into the market.

Industry committee  Thank you, Commissioner Boswell. When we're looking at segments of the market, we look both at the product market and at the geographic market. On a geographic basis, what we looked at in the wireless market was either local or city. City is a little bit broader than local. Those were the two geographic markets that we were looking at in the wireless sector.

Industry committee  Madam Chair, there are a number of different aspects to the telecommunications regime in Canada, and there are areas where the Competition Bureau can be involved. The CRTC is the organization that oversees the wholesale regime in Canada. Questions regarding that regime would be best placed with the CRTC.

Industry committee  We do have the ability to take action when potential abuse of dominance is happening, exclusionary conduct in the marketplace. There is a very specific test we need to use in order to use our abuse of dominance provision, and it also includes a requirement to show that there's been an adverse effect on competition.