As Canada’s wireless communications sector consolidates, Globalive Capital Chairman Anthony Lacavera said the country needs an independent carrier amid a fresh push to acquire unused wireless spectrum in Manitoba.
its plan to re-enter the wireless market Monday through an offer to purchase spectrum licenses from Manitoba-based Xplore Mobile, which ceased operations in August 2022.
“Independent means a wireless carrier that is not owned by a cable or phone company because as soon as the cable or phone company has a wireless company, they have conflicts. They want to maintain their legacy cable and their legacy wireline telephone business and so they never compete aggressively in wireless.” Monday that the sale of the spectrum licenses will bring wireless prices down for Manitobans, similar to when the company operated Wind Mobile in Canada.
Lacavera said Wind had an impact on Canada’s wireless industry, as “prices were down 20 per cent wherever Wind Mobile was operating in Ontario, B.C. and Alberta.”
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