Canada’s Competitors Tribunal has dominated that the Rogers Communications Inc. July 8 service outage is related to the upcoming hearings on the telecom large’s $26-billion takeover of Shaw Communications Inc.
The ruling was made Friday after listening to submissions from Rogers and the Commissioner of Competitors on the matter.
The outage affected thousands and thousands of Canadians, and to verify it doesn’t occur once more, Rogers is committing $10 billion over three years on community upgrades and can spend $150 million on buyer credit.
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The ruling comes after Rogers launched a business final week outlining what it’s doing to earn again the belief of Canadians.
In a separate courtroom doc filed on Aug. 15 and made accessible to the general public Monday, the tribunal says the proposed sale of Shaw-owned wi-fi service Freedom Cell to Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron Ltd. isn’t an “efficient treatment” because it “fails to get rid of the substantial lessening and prevention of competitors” the transaction may trigger.
Rogers intends to promote Freedom to Quebecor for $2.85 billion, within the hopes that the transfer will appease the considerations of federal regulators concerning its proposed takeover of Shaw.
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