Finance committee  Right. There is a “use it or lose it” clause already in most spectrum licences and we support that.

Finance committee  Most definitely, if you look at what I discussed in my presentation, and the same stats are in our submission, the Canadian network relative to Europe, in particular its size, just in our areas that are covered is bigger than the U.K., France, Spain, Germany, and Italy combined.

Finance committee  Certainly. We take advantage of this service. Canadians use about 90% more data on average than users in these countries, and 83% of all mobile traffic in Canada travels over the latest generation 4G networks, compared to an average of only 51% of mobile traffic in these major E

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr Chair. I'm very pleased to be here. Canada's wireless industry is comprised of a diverse range of competitors that all share a common goal: empowering more Canadians to use wireless to do more. Canadian consumer preferences have created our mobile-first world, wher

Finance committee  What we've requested would result in increased investment in urban areas, obviously, to meet demand, extend networks into areas that don't currently have service, and improve poor or substandard service in rural areas. I don't know exactly how a trade-off would work in a situati

Finance committee  I'm familiar with a lot of collaborative models. We've seen that with various regions and municipalities. The Eastern Ontario Regional Network has done something very similar. I'm not really familiar with the model where the municipality owns the towers. They help facilitate. The

Finance committee  Fifty per cent.

Finance committee  I believe it would be over some, but there would be some that would have a similar rate.

Finance committee  These are from the Conference Board of Canada. They did a study on this. They said that in the long term, if it were a permanent change, it would result in an additional $225 million in infrastructure investment annually and 1,660 jobs.

Finance committee  From that, it was a $163-million increase in GDP. They didn't have a tax revenue.

Finance committee  Again, it's about infrastructure. To go back to what you said about the U.S., the World Bank just released data this week on the affordability of wireless. Looking at what people pay on average as a percentage of their monthly income, wireless is more affordable in Canada than i

Finance committee  To answer that question, we don't typically pay a lot more than other countries that use a similar amount of data. You'll see these countries that use similar amounts of data on similar quality networks pay about the same, especially on an affordability basis. The request is tha

Finance committee  Yes, exactly.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to be here. The CWTA represents wireless service providers as well as companies that develop and produce products and services for the industry, including handset and equipment manufacturers, content and application creators, and business-to-bus

Industry committee  That's what the CCTS has set as the level for small businesses as a business expense of under $2,500 a month for telecommunications fees.