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Rogers/Shaw: Competition Bureau analysis “flawed and incomplete”, Rogers says

Shaw says Freedom was built to be easily separated from Shaw ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS AND Shaw Communications today filed their responses to the Competition Bureau’s application to the Competition Tribunal for an order blocking their proposed merger, with Rogers calling Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell’s position “unreasonable”. In an application to the Competition Tribunal, filed last month, the commissioner indicated he is seeking to prevent the Rogers and Shaw merger due to concern over the impact he alleges it will have on wireless competition in the country. Rogers, however, says the commissioner’s analysis “is flawed and incomplete.” “Contrary to the Commissioner’s...