The service improvements that the two telcos say would result from their proposed merger are “vague, unspecified, not legally binding and what any company will do in the normal course of business,” Telus’s vice-president of telecom policy told commissioners on the second day of hearings on the $26-billion deal. The CRTC’s best move is “complete rejection,” Stephen Schmidt said. (The Logic)
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