Q116: When will a cellphone capable of utilizing the AWS-3 spectrum band be publicly available in Canada?
Before the end of 2015: 35%
Sometime in 2016: 40%
Not before the end of 2016: 25%
AWS-3 is a spectrum band that has been recently set aside for use by mobile carriers. Rights to use it have been recently auctioned off in Canada (see article here) and the US. There are currently no cellphones capable of using AWS-3 in Canada. However, according to a recent Globe and Mail article about the issue, devices will not be available "until at least 2016, and perhaps not until the following year" (although some expect devices to be available by the end of the year). I am basing my odds primarily on that statement.
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