Industry committee  —or big ILECs like Telus and Bell to make money. They should do that. They have their hands full keeping up with the technology and the upgrades in the major urban centres. That is a big thing to do. They should not be criticized for it in any way. It's a huge job. At the same t

Industry committee  There were about five points in there that I will address. The previous government, the government before that, and the government before that allocated at different times funding for this problem, and they came at it in different ways. In 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, I attended r

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Of course, and it's ideal to have parallel structures in the north. I'm working on some in co-operation with some radio manufacturers who are looking at how to address that, but I really don't want to talk about that.

Industry committee  That is actually my only hurdle, the funding to develop the radios, and because it is fundamentally different from the thinking of how to do radios.... I'll give you an example. All Wi-Fi radios are using technology that's 25 years old, developed in Germany. I can't even remembe

Industry committee  Oh, it could be, 100%. Yes.

Industry committee  That is an excellent question. I've been working with the Van Horne Institute, and I think I can speak for my colleague here. We're businessmen. We're quick. We can respond quickly. That is an advantage. There's nothing wrong with the major telcos. That would be a great initiati

Industry committee  Why are we paying for any spectrum in that case? What's the value of the spectrum? It's nothing, because the amount of money that you can return on the capital is zero. You you have to make it affordable for those people, and for the companies to be able to provide that. It's tru

Industry committee  As a private company, I'm against net neutrality. I want all of your private information, and I want to leverage the crap out of it to make as much money as possible off it. As a private citizen, I'm for net neutrality because I do not want you to have all of my private informat

Industry committee  As an example, we can get colour pictures from a satellite that went by Pluto.

Industry committee  Yes, if you have the money, we can do these things. There are a couple of inherent problems. In this regard, I'd want to meet with everybody personally, because I don't want to give away all of my trade secrets, of course. That said, I will say there's an inherent infrastructure

Industry committee  Sorry.

Industry committee  Who were you asking?

Industry committee  Why don't you go first? I have a tendency to run on.

Industry committee  Okay, here we go. Thank you very much for asking the spectrum question. It's the elephant in the room. It's the private versus public, and we are all familiar with the spectrum squatting that has gone on for over 15 years now. The first thing I'd say is that if you don't use it