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With the increasing calls for more competition in the market place due to the recent Rogers iPhone fiasco and with the new incoming text messaging charges implemented by Bell and Telus, I was interested to learn more about the new parties that are vying for entry into the Canadian wireless marketplace.

While any and all new entries are welcome and needed to drive down prices and horrible long-term contracts, one entry in particular caught my attention:

” . . . Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Wireless, chaired by entrepreneur John Bitove has committed C$242.5 million in high bids. One of Bitove’s partners in DAVE Wireless is the investment arm of Vulcan Inc., an organization founded by Paul Allen, a co-founder of software giant Microsoft Corp.”