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The recent drama of the power play within the Rogers family may be winding down, but the theatrics of getting the family-run company's massive takeover of Shaw over the finish line have only just begun.
Article content Canada’s telecom regulator’s decision to make it easier for small wireless carriers to expand to different regions of the country won’t result in an immediate shift for Canadian consumers, but will bring about “incremental” improvements to wireless competition, according to CRTC chairman Ian Scott. “It’s a longer-term game. And there isn’t an instant reward,” Scott said in an interview Thursday following the release of the CRTC’s long-awaited decision on mandating access to large national wireless providers’ networks. We apologize, but this video has fail...
"While some seek to justify it or explain it away, the simple reality is that Canadians already pay some of the highest prices for wireless services in the world," Geist said, echoing other opponents of the deal. "If this merger is approved, the situation is likely to get worse. Indeed, when Rogers promises that it will not raise prices for Shaw Freedom Mobile customers for three years, it effectively signals that it will be raising them as soon as the clock runs out on that time." Shaw chief executive Brad Shaw and Rogers CEO Joe Natale told the same committee on March 29 that they'd be stro...
A woman holds two cellphones with the corporate logos of Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications in a photo illustration in Chelsea, Que., Monday March 29, 2021. A review of the proposed $26-billion purchase of Shaw Communications by Rogers Communications continues into its third day today in Ottawa before a committee of federal MPs. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld TORONTO – Rogers Communications Inc. shouldn’t be allowed to buy Canada’s fourth-largest wireless service, Freedom Mobile, because it would undo attempts improve prices and services through competition, experts in tele...
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