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Article: CRTC Denies Globalive's Entry Into Wireless Market.(Canada. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)
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- November 2, 2009
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Copyright 2009, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Originally published in Blakes Bulletin on Communications, October 2009
In a widely anticipated decision, Canada's national communications regulator, the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission (the Commission), announced on October 29, 2009, that Globalive Wireless Management Corporation (Globalive) is controlled in fact by non-Canadians and that Globalive is not eligible to operate as a carrier in the Canadian wireless market, as currently structured. Despite the rejection, the decision leaves open the door for Globalive to return to the Commission with an amended governance and financial ...