A year and a half in the making, here’s how the Rogers-Shaw merger has evolved, the controversies around it, and how it became the biggest case ever heard by the Competition Tribunal
, arguing that a merger of Canada’s two largest cable companies would reduce competition and result in higher cell phone bills, poorer service, and less choice for consumers.
In order to avoid eliminating a wireless competitor, and hoping to address the Competition Bureau’s concerns, Rogers and Shaw agreed to sell Shaw’s Freedom Mobile to Quebecor’s Videotron as part of the deal in June. in Alberta and B.C., because Quebecor and other potential buyers of Freedom refused to bid on the division.Despite Rogers and Shaw agreeing to sell Freedom Mobile to a competitor, the Competition Bureau opposes the merger.in the Competition Tribunal, the agency argued that Freedom would come out of a sale as a weakened competitor because Rogers would acquire a number of Shaw’s assets such as infrastructure and personnel.
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