Wirelessnorth.ca

No it’s not over yet. These guys are tireless. For your continued entertainment and erudition however WirelessNorth.ca offers you yet another view / sneak peak of Canada’s would-be wireless landscape. Everything depends on your province. The following tables give a representation of how much of the whole 90MHz of AWS spectrum is currently spoken for by each bidder as weighted by population.

Understanding the numbers: expressed as a percentage of the total spectrum owned across what percentage of the provincial population. Someone owning all of the spectrum in all of the licenses in alberta, for example, would have 100%. All of the spectrum covering only half the population 50% etc. For another common example a spectrum holder of 20MHz across the whole province would be expressed as 22% (20/90) or 10MHz equates to 11% if the license covers the whole province. Consider 11% as the minimum for license to offer service covering everyone in a province.

This all makes a little more sense once visualized as little colorful pie charts across a map of Canada. This is just a sneak peak. When (if) the auction finally does close, WirelessNorth.ca will be offering a downloadable version of all our Auction data, colorful visualizations and analysis. Possibly there will a free and reasonably priced paid version of that. Significantly less than 4.05 Billion.