Yesterday there was a story about some polls commissioned by Bell regarding Verizon and the upcoming wireless auction. Take our fun, unscientific poll below and share it with your friends and let’s see what the numbers end up at (if you can’t see the polls you’ll have to click through to the story to vote)
Would you switch to Verizon?
Should Verizon or Canadian companies be favoured in the upcoming wireless auction?
Despite the ongoing opposition to Ottawa’s current wireless spectrum rules, Industry Minister James Moore has stated the auction will proceed as planned. He also reiterated the current auction rules were decided with consultation with carriers, with the latter only opposing them when Verizon’s intentions to come to Canada were made public.
Rogers’ proposed $26 billion takeover of Shaw Communications, if successful, could deliver a $216 million payday to 12 hedge funds that bet on it — reports Reuters. The controversial and heavily contested merger has a January 31 deadline. With the Federal Court of Appeal rejecting the Competition Bureau’s appeal of the merger on Tuesday, Rogers and...
The Canadian government on Wednesday announced the results of a residual spectrum auction that concluded on January 17. Residual spectrum auctions are a way for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to sell licences that weren't sold in previous auctions or were returned. Ottawa held an auction for the 3,800 MHz bands in June 2022,...
MPs on the House of Commons' industry and technology committee on Wednesday expressed concerns about the impact of Rogers’ proposed $26 billion takeover of Shaw Communications on jobs, competition, and affordability in Canada's telecommunications sector (via The Globe and Mail). During another hearing on the long-embattled merger just a week before its January 31 deadline,...
