Canada concerned about wireless spectrum "hoarding"

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's government is concerned about
"hoarding" of wireless spectrum and has implemented rules that
will prevent new market entrants from selling their spectrum
licenses to the incumbent Big Three wireless telecoms
providers, Industry Minister Jim Prentice said on Tuesday.

Prentice said the 10-year licenses that are being awarded
to firms that won spectrum at the government's recent auction
cannot be resold to any company that doesn't meet the criteria
of a new entrant in the wireless industry for five years. He
added he also expects that those who won licenses will put the
spectrum they have to "its highest productive use."