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Regulators can rest easy with Videotron entry into national wireless market: Bell CEO

By Ahmad Hathout MONTREAL – A well-funded Videotron, newly equipped with Shaw’s Freedom Mobile, will mean regulators will not need to worry about a viable wireless fourth player in an already competitive market, Bell CEO Mirko Bibic said during a first quarter conference call Thursday. “We now have four well-capitalized significant players,” Bibic said. “That is very rare across the global footprint, and I think if you are sitting there from a public policy position...having four players like that is quite significant and will enhance competitive competition and consumer value. “I think the job ought to be considered as having...