Canadians' fury over Rogers outage may complicate its merger hopes

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TORONTO — Rogers Communications complicated its chances of getting antitrust approval for a C$20 billion telecom merger after Friday’s massive outage…

Smaller internet and wireless providers rely on their infrastructure network to deliver their own services.

Friday’s outage came two days after Rogers held talks with Canada’s antitrust authority to discuss possible remedies to its blocked C$20 billion takeover of Shaw Communications. “It is a ‘non-price effect’ – that is, concentration of ownership and control of critical infrastructure making an ever more central point of failure to deliver basic services,” said John Lawford, executive director of the Ottawa-based Public Interest Advocacy Centre , which has argued against the merger at the Competition Bureau.Article content

University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist, who focuses on the internet and e-commerce law, said the outage “must be a wake-up for a government that has been asleep on digital policy.”

 

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they should only be allowed to merge if American internet companies are allowed in

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