Industry committee  We don't agree with hoarding spectrum. We want spectrum. We want to deploy the spectrum, so we would be supportive of a program that reduced the time from allocation to deployment so that you could demonstrate that it was incentivizing the infrastructure builds that are necessary

Industry committee  No, it doesn't.

Industry committee  That's a falsehood.

Industry committee  If 40% of the spectrum is set aside for regional parties, in some cases since 2008, and the spectrum allocated since then has still not been deployed, how can you say that it all goes to the incumbents? It does not.

Industry committee  Similarly, I think that we've added capacity across the transport network and on the spectrum to support the increased usage we're seeing.

Industry committee  Well, if you study the recent quarterly results, you will see that there were differing sets of performance figures, and Q1 only had a small amount of COVID impact, but it is having a dramatic impact on future revenue surety, and while we're waiving overages, extending payment fl

Industry committee  I think it varies on the users. It depends on someone's user package and what rate plan they're on as to whether they would have had an overage fee. As we've said, we've waived overage fees while we're in this COVID situation.

Industry committee  I would say that the $43 billion that we've remitted in tax receipts since 2000, the tax morality of our constituency, is the best sign to say that we would work with anyone and work effectively for the benefit of Canadians.

Industry committee  Do you want me to answer? The cost for us to provide a spectrum to satisfy subscribers is $340 per subscriber in the rounds of recent spectrum auctions that we've had to participate in. The equivalency in Japan is $30 per subscriber. In Germany, it's $140. In the U.S., it's $200

Industry committee  It's not just getting the spectrum. You have to deploy the spectrum. You need infrastructure. You have to build the antennas, the network, the fibres and the backhaul. You have a lot more than just the spectrum.

Industry committee  I would say that we would be as interested as anyone in making a good economic return and supporting a national program to provide access to all Canadians. If we could all align on how we can make the spectrum assets work for us cost-effectively, that would do a big part of the j

Industry committee  I'm trying to overcome your confirmation bias. Let me address the question.

Industry committee  If [Inaudible—Editor] policy is going to change, we have to look at the economic return of that policy on our business and we have to accommodate that policy in our strategic plans.

Industry committee  Maybe I could give you a Telus perspective. We would certainly see that the Quebec government has been the most successful at working with industry and within the federal schemes to extract dollars to create opportunity to build.

Industry committee  No, I don't. I haven't seen that work anywhere globally to a sustainable effect.