A woman holds two cellphones in this photo illustration, Monday March 29, 2021 in Chelsea, Que. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
TORONTO – BCE’s unsuccessful bid for Shaw Communications Inc. has renewed speculation about which other telecom companies could be takeover targets for Bell, Rogers or Telus.
BCE Inc. confirmed on the weekend that it attempted to outbid Toronto-based Rogers Communications Inc. as that company negotiated a friendly takeover of Shaw.
If the Competition Bureau allows Rogers to buy Shaw and its Freedom Mobile division as proposed in March, there could be a flood of other deals, Carleton University professor Dwayne Winseck said in an interview Monday.