Yak Communications throws hat in Canadian spectrum auction ring

We're going to resist digging deep into our secret stash of yak jokes here and just concentrate on the facts: Canada's Yak Communications, a division of a larger telecom outfit Globalive, has formally submitted paperwork to get in on Canada's upcoming spectrum auction. The auction's a pretty big deal -- T-Mobile's name has been thrown around as a possible entrant -- because as Yak points out, only three companies currently own the entirety of Canada's national cellular airwaves, leaving plenty of room for improvement in the competition department. Yak's whole deal appears to be centered around a contract-free approach, something that could come as a refreshing change of pace in a country where three-year contracts are more the rule than the exception. The auction kicks off toward the end of May, and in the meantime, feel free to post yak humor of your very own (of the clean sort, of course) in comments.

[Via Mobile In Canada]

[FriedYoda Posted Mar 12th 2008 6:32PM]

Yak says, "Yakity yak, don't come back" to 3-year contracts.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 11th 2008 10:01PM]

Yak says: Glory be to Allah!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 11th 2008 10:35PM]

wow, no mention of MTS? MTS was probably (one of) the first entrants in the auction. Many are thinking they might win it. They got the former CEO of Fido to head to consortium for the auction. Should be interesting, my whole family is with MTS, but I wouldn't ever think of switching to them unless if lots of things changed. Especially for it to stop acting like a government agency.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 12th 2008 3:47AM]

It would be nice having a contract-free company, but it's been tried before (Fido) and failed. It would better just to get a company offering shorter (2 year (US) or 18 month (UK)) contracts. Maybe cheaper prices too? I liked the recent price war among US carriers, need that in Canada.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 16th 2008 11:58AM]

we have something like that here in the US, its called MetroPCS