The Competition Bureau enlisted Will Arnett’s help as it began its case against the Rogers-Shaw merger Monday using an old TV commercial to illustrate what it says telecom consumers will lose if the $26-billion takeover goes ahead.
Cue Arnett, then the spokesperson for Shaw’s wireless business Freedom Mobile, who outlined one of the latest offers from the company and said millions of customers had switched to the upstart carrier in recent years. He emphasized that the main business of Shaw is its cable operation, which sells internet and television services in Alberta, British Columbia and parts of northern Ontario, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Rogers and Shaw announced their proposed merger in March, 2021 and after the bureau raised concerns about the impact the deal would have on competition, they, the Quebec telecom operator with ambitions to expand to other parts of the country. The bureau has maintained that the Vidéotron deal is not enough to address the substantial lessening of competition it says will stem from the Rogers-Shaw merger.He said the case will look at the question of whether Canada will continue to see strong regional wireless competitors, like Shaw with its Freedom Mobile business.
Nobody who is a citizen of Canada unless they work for Rogers or Shaw wants this deal to happen. This is ridiculous. This is the biggest oligopoly in Canada.
Time to open telecom to the T-Mobiles, AT&Ts and Verizons of the world.
thats rich
That means there is a lot of overlap and it's in the best interests of consumers to block.
That’s a view from a unbiased party. 😂 my god are there any real journalists left at the star.
That's hilarious.
Many of us BoycottRogers and will have no problem boycotting Shaw.
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