Wind Mobile, Mobilicity & Public Mobile withdraw from CWTA for Big Telecom bias

Canada’s independent cell phone carriers have pulled out of the CWTA (the cell phone industry lobby group) because of a “consistent bias” for Rogers, Bell, and Telus - including the CWTA’s siding with Big Telecom on issues like not needing national cell phone rules and insisting Canadians are not being price-gouged. We need more companies to stand up and demand choice, better rules, and competition for Canadians. Article by Bertrand Marotte for The Globe and Mail: A bitter feud between Canada’s smaller wireless firms and their bigger rivals has come to a head with three mobile phone carriers’ angry pullout from the industry’s main lobby group.

Wind Mobile Canada, Mobilicity and Public Mobile say are withdrawing from the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association over what they say is the group’s “consistent bias” in favour of the big three players: Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc. and Telus Corp.

The upstarts said in a joint news release Wednesday that they are fed up with what they say is the CWTA’s tendency to back the three dominant firms on a “wide variety of issues. Read more »

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