The National Post has a couple commentaries about the AWS spectrum auction this morning.
Terence Corcoran has an editorial entitled “Ottawa’s spectrum auction is nothing but a tax grab“.
Also on the FP Comment page, there is an article that echoes the proposal that Michael Sone and I set out in our opening remarks at The Canadian Telecom Summit last month. Michael Janigan, Janet Yale and I co-authored the piece calling for the auction windfall to be earmarked for a program to bridge the digital divide in Canada: “Canada needs a national broadband strategy“.
The article concludes with:
In the 21st century broadband must be treated as part of a nation’s core infrastructure. Canada has the opportunity — and now the means as well — to do just that.