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Terence Corcoran: Ottawa’s competition ‘hawks’ swooping in on Rogers — again

Tribunal to hear new Competition Bureau allegations about telco, this time about 'infinite' data plans

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It is now exactly half a decade since the March 15, 2021, announcement by Rogers and Shaw that the two Canadian telcos planned to merge. The deal successfully closed in April 2023, but only after a two-year battle with the anti-merger Competition Bureau, whose attempt to mount a “full block” of the deal was rejected by the Competition Tribunal, which oversees the legality of the Bureau’s activities.

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The Tribunal’s 80-page take down of the Bureau’s case against Rogers was later upheld by a........

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