Put Shaw merger back on the hot seat, say researchers, analysts, as politicos await answers from Rogers

Innovation, Science, and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne will appear before the House Industry and Technology Committee alongside officials from Rogers and the CRTC to provide answers on the cause of the July 8 outage, its impact, and best practices to avoid future emergencies.

Rogers Communications has until the end of the week to provide detailed answers to the country’s telecom regulator, explaining the “how” and “why” of the recent nationwide service outage, but policy analysts are already asking how much worse it would have been had the proposed merger with Shaw already gone through.Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper.

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