Alltell in the States has a US GSM network, a fairly large one...but its not open to subscribers. Its for foreign roamers to use. Those roamers are indirectly paying Alltell for that privledge.
Right now, Rogers has 100% of that pie in Canada.
My guess is Telus will setup a GSM network in the major centres (Vancouver will be first, for the tens of thousands of Euros that will be passing through there in 2 years (and before)) in Canada for this very reason, at least in the short term, to get a footprint.
Also, the CTRC has opened cell bandwidth to new players...if a company like Vodaphone (Euro GSM) gets in in the next few years, Telus wants a headstart on infrastructure to roll out to thier own clients.
This has been rumored for a while, pretty much ever since Telus lost out on acquiring Microcell (Fido) to Rogers.
Should be interesting to see how it plays out, I would be very surprised in the next two years if Telus' GSM network has Canadian subscribers on it, though.
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