text: **Consultation on Transfers, Divisions and Subordinate Licensing**
  **of Spectrum Licences**
  In June 2013, 
  Industry Canada released*Framework Relating to*
  *Transfers, Divisions and Subordinate Licensing of Spectrum Licences for*
  *Commercial Mobile Spectrum*. The Framework lays out the criteria 
  Industry Canada will consider and the processes it will use when it 
  reviews spectrum licence transfers, including prospective transfers that 
  could arise from purchase or sale options and other agreements. Key 
  things to note: 
  (cid:129) Industry Canada will review all spectrum transfer requests, and will 
  not allow any that result in “undue spectrum concentration” and 
  reduced competition. Decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis 
  and will be issued publicly to increase transparency. 
  
  (cid:129) Licensees must ask for a review within 15 days of entering into any 
  agreement that could lead to a prospective transfer. Industry Canada 
  will review the agreement as though the licence transfer that could 
  arise from it has been made. 
  (cid:129) This 
  
  timing does not apply to agreements made before the 
  Framework was released, which means the spectrum agreements we 
  have with Shaw and Quebecor will not be reviewed under the 
  Framework until 2014. 