The Rogers-Shaw takeover is going ahead. What you need to know about the $20-billion deal

Ottawa is now clearing the way for the Rogers-Shaw takeover – two years after the deal was first announced. Here’s a look at how the $20-billion deal has evolved, the controversies around it, and why it’s now being approved ⬇️

Here’s how the Rogers-Shaw takeover deal has evolved, the controversies around it, why the Competition Bureau opposed it and why it’s now being approved.Canada’s telecom landscape is relatively small: Rogers, Telus, Bell, Shaw and Quebecor are the main providers in the country. Rogers and Shaw own non-competing cable and internet businesses on opposite sides of the country.

The deal would allow Quebecor to acquire Freedom’s 1.7 million customers, and would transform the Montreal-based company, which has 22 per cent of Quebec’s wireless market, into a national wireless platform with customers in Ontario, Alberta, and B.C. Rogers would

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