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stanley flask th-largest wireless service, Freedom Mobile, because it would undo attempts improve prices and services through competition, experts in telecommunications policy told MPs on Tuesday.In a third day of hearings into the Rogers proposal to buy Shaw Communications Inc., which owns Freedom as well as Western Canada largest cable internet network, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist said regulators should require a spinoff of the wireless assets before approving the deal.While some seek to justify it or explain it away, the simple reality is that Canadians already pay some of the highest prices for wireless services in the world, Geist said, echoing other opponents of the deal. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW If this merger is approved, the situation is likely to get worse. Indeed, when Rogers promises that it will not raise prices for Shaw Freedom Mobile customers for three years, it effectively signals that it will be raising them as soon as the clock
stanley kaffeebecher runs out on that time.Shaw chief executive Brad Shaw and Rogers CEO Joe Natale told the same committee on March 29 that they ;d be stronger competitors to Bell and Telus by combined their spending power and assets. That would allow an enlarged Rogers to reach more rural and underserved areas, they said. ARTICL
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stanley mug rloo Region.The NDP was far from winning a single seat in the region in Mondays election, but despite the shutout, NDP Kitchener-Conestoga candidate Riani de Wet said she believes they made great strides in the riding, and her foot will remain on the gas. Ive never been one to back off a challenge, de Wet said. The face of the riding is changing and there are a lot of younger people who moved into the area 鈥?younger people with children. Many of them are not Conservative. They are looking for a political arum where they feel comfortable and I think the NDP offers that. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW de Wet was the underdog in the Kitchener-Conestoga riding, with it being historically conservative. With Liberal candidate Tim Louis and Con
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stanley tumbler ning, when a winner still had not been declared due to uncounted votes. A lot of people are receptive to what the NDP offers and if you look not just in our riding or in our region, but across Canada, their second choice would be NDP. Theres a lot of openness and receptiveness to the policies and principles of the NDP, sh
