Teksavvy asks CRTC to dam proposed sale of Freedom Cell to Videotron
TekSavvy Options Inc. is asking the federal telecommunications regulator to overview a key a part of Rogers Communications Inc.’s plan. purchase Shaw Communications Inc. and promoting Shaw’s Freedom Cell wi-fi enterprise to Videotron.
Ontario’s impartial ISP says deal phrases are unfair
TekSavvy Options Inc. is asking the federal telecommunications regulator to overview a key a part of Rogers Communications Inc.’s plan. purchase Shaw Communications Inc. and promoting Shaw’s Freedom Cell wi-fi enterprise to Videotron.
The impartial web supplier is asking the CRTC to analyze the a part of the settlement protecting wholesale broadband community preparations between Rogers and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron.
The Ontario-based Web service supplier says the complete sale is contingent on a wholesale entry association that can see Rogers present its broadband community to Vidéotron at discounted charges that aren’t out there to impartial ISPs akin to TekSavvy.
TekSavvy says agreements like that over web entry violate the Telecommunications Act and are anti-competitive.
As a part of its plan to handle competitors issues, Rogers desires to promote Freedom to Videotron in a transfer that might develop the Quebec-based firm’s wi-fi operations nationally.
The Competitors Court docket dismissed an an attempt by the Competition Bureau to block the Rogers-Shaw deal late final yr in a call that stated the sale of Freedom to Videotron was satisfactory to make sure that competitors was not considerably lowered.
The Competitors Bureau is interesting the choice.
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