Well it is in directly from the official government website Canada is going to allow 40 MHz of bandwidth to be picked up other than the 3 major carriers in Canada. (Rogers, Telus or Bell Mobility)
From the Canadian Press
In its submission to the industry department, MTS Allstream noted that Canadians pay up to 79 per cent more for wireless services than Americans, a key reason they say that cellphone usage in Canada lags far below that in the U.S. or Europe.
Foreign corporations by themselves will not be able to pick up the bandwidth. They will have to joint partner with a Canadian Company.
HMMMM
I have a Canadian company…. If you want to partner up, Google, I have a company. I do not have the capital to bid on this spectrum but you do. yah… I’d like that…. Let’s talk. 
Boy Howdy! Things are moving fast.
Just in from the Globe and Mail
All eyes will be on whether Ottawa intervenes in what would otherwise be a free-market auction by preventing the big players — Bell, Telus and Rogers — from bidding on part of the spectrum.
Mr. Prentice has so far been mum on whether Ottawa will set aside part of the frequencies up for auction in order to allow new entrants to bid on these without competition from Bell, Rogers or Telus.
Such a move would be contrary to pure free market principles but would be in keeping with the Conservative government’s avowedly populist approach and its focus on consumers. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, for instance, has pressed banks to cut automated banking machine fees and has lobbied retailers to cut prices to reflect the strengthened Canadian dollar.
A potential block of bidding on new spectrum from the big guys!….. Stay tuned….
More here
Testing of handsets to make sure they make the grade can be tricky and political.
From business week this morning..
For starters, Verizon Wireless will need to test any new device model before letting it connect to its network. The degree of openness will hinge on how difficult Verizon Wireless makes it for products to get a green light. Columbia University law professor Tim Wu, a leading proponent of wireless open access, points out that the old Ma Bell-era phone companies often used testing requirements as a way to control their networks. “There’s testing requirements and there’s testing requirements,” says Wu. “One is routine—and there’s another thing of deciding what products they don’t want on their network. It can become a black hole from which products never emerge.”
Developers have to have a clear picture of what will be accepted and what will not be accepted. If a developer spends 6 months on a project and then finds out a carrier blocks them on a technicality because it does not meet their business needs, this will further close the whole system.
Further more if the delay in testing handsets amounts to months, the same objective has been fullfilled.
Openness is like being pregnant. There is no half being pregnant.