Shaw customers won’t need to worry about price hikes if the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission lets Rogers swallow the western telco and broadcaster, Rogers’s president of connected home Dean Prevost told commission chair Ian Scott. as a week of hearings on the proposed $26-billion deal began. (The Logic)

Talking point: The hearings are focused on Rogers taking over Shaw’s broadcasting distribution licences. The joint Rogers-Shaw delegation told the commission that extending Rogers’ superior Ignite TV internet-television service to Shaw’s customers will be good for them and for Canadian content presented alongside U.S.-based streams. The executives said that because Rogers and Shaw both offer cable in just a handful of northwestern Ontario markets, the merger won’t really reduce competition. Thirty-one other presenters, including Telus and BCE, are lined up to share their own views in the coming days.