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Infrastructure, spectrum key to competition, lower prices: Bains

News | 11/17/2016 10:16 pm EST

OTTAWA — The quality of Canada’s wireless and wireline networks is a “significant strength,” but the country can’t rest on its laurels while others catch up, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains told attendees of the International Institute of Communications’ (IIC) Canadian conference Thursday morning.

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