Bell, Rogers, Telus squeeze Ottawa on wireless  Industry
Minister James Moore has barely had time to get comfortable in
his new chair and already he is being squeezed by the country’s
three big wireless carriers.  The latest public pressure came
today when BCE Inc.—which owns Bell Canada — placed two-page ads
in major newspapers appealing to Canadians about what it says is
federal policy that would give “special regulatory advantages”
to Verizon Communications should it enter the market here.
Verizon is considering buying struggling startups Wind Mobile
and Mobilicity, which it can under a new regulation allowing
foreign companies to buy all of a carrier that has less than 10
per cent of the market.  Bell doesn’t say the Harper government
is deliberately tilting the rules to favour Verizon in Ottawa’s
efforts to increase the number of competitors in the cellular
business. But it does say that the government “inadvertently
left holes” in its strategy that will put Canadian-owned
carriers at a disadvantage whe