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Originally Posted by Azure
Bell buying MTS in Manitoba increased prices.
Bell argued that it wouldn't.
Prices were kept low for a couple years, but lately Bell has merged a lot of MTS customers into the Bell side, and unless you are a big cooperate account, pricing got worse.
If you were a big cooperate account, pricing got better.
The same thing will happen with Shaw & Rogers, but on a bigger scale. Nobody in their right mind actually believes that anything will get better other than how much more profit Rogers will make.
The ONLY reason these sales are allowed to continue is the amount of influence the telecom industry has over our politicians.
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^^^ This 100%.
The real argument for the merger is that Shaw can't really afford to build out 5G on it's own. A big part of this is the diffuse population density and the sheer size of the country.
The worst thing is every time an operator is lost, it makes it much more unlikely that a new operator will start up. The cost of new entrants keeps going up and up and up.
One way to truly get competition is to open up the market to foreign ownership. Hell will have frozen over before the Feds ever let that happen.