It's All About "Spectrum and Infrastructure"

In my opinion Canadians require a Government body mandated to implement the necessary fiber and tower infrastructure nationwide to deliver highspeed wireless access for all Canadians. The Government body would also be the soul owner of all Spectrum and provision it to Canadians directly.

Only licensed spectrum can deliver the distance and penetration needed for rural communities who represent no ROI for carriers.

Hooking up a blackberry, iphone, ipad etc should require Canadians to first purchase a monthly data plan from the Government body and secondly subscribe to the carrier of their choice for service provisioning. This in my opinion is the only way of leveling the playing field for everyone including incumbants.

It's all about mobility for host based devices and applications "ipad, iphones,blackberry's laptops etc."

Applications of tomorrow will require much more bandwidth. HD video streaming etc.

We can currently observe that allowing carriers to buy spectrum through auctions guarantees their ability to control marketshare today and tomorrow. A spectrum reclamation should be put in place based on national interests.

Spectrum is the underlying commodity upon which all new technological advances will be made. Again it's all about driving application to the mobile device.

HSPA can already provision sufficient speeds for most mobile devices. Carriers should only be allowed to sell services to the consumer and carry all services on a publically owned infrastructure.

Canadians need to own the airwaves and underlying infrastructure for all their current and future technological needs. Anything less leaves Canadians at the mercy of carriers who are only too happy to capitalize on the situation.