Backroom deal will kill choice and make our lives more expensive.
from OpenMedia
Rogers has struck a backroom deal with Shaw to take over assets crucial to delivering our mobile Internet and phone services – assets that were promised to create new independent choices for Canadians, not more control for Big Telecom.
We do not deserve this.
The deal will allow our biggest mobile phone and Internet provider, Rogers Inc, to go around the spirit of Canada’s key digital policy rules so they can grow even bigger, jack up your bill, and all but guarantee that Canadians have only three mobile telecom giants to choose from.
The deal will allow Rogers Inc, to go around the spirit of Canada’s key digital policy rules so they can grow even bigger, jack up your bill, and all but guarantee that Canadians have only three mobile telecom giants to choose from.
Shaw and Rogers should play by the rules like everybody else. Industry Minister Christian Paradis can stop this backroom deal; he’s in the process of making that decision right now. We have to tell him where Canadians stand, or Big Telecom lobbyists will get their way.
Send Paradis a message. Demand choice for the future of Internet access before it’s too late.
Click on the OpenMedia link below and go to the OpenMedia website to send this letter:
Subject: Stand up for telecom choice
Dear Industry Minister Paradis,
Please stand up for telecom choice and affordability. Big Telecom should not be able to prevent Canadians from accessing affordable mobile phone and Internet options. Shaw obtained public wireless assets at a premium – they should use them or lose them.
I urge you to stop Rogers from taking over key wireless public assets that were set aside for independent providers. It’s wrong.
Please do the right thing.
Yours truly, etc
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