The Quebec telco will need to keep Freedom’s wireless licences for at least 10 years and offer cellphone service across Canada at the comparatively low prices it offers in Quebec, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne said late Tuesday. No problem, Videotron’s Pierre Karl Péladeau promptly replied. (The Logic)

Talking point: Rogers and Shaw are selling Freedom, Shaw’s cut-rate wireless brand, to answer a previous Champagne warning that he wouldn’t let Rogers take over all of Shaw’s wireless-spectrum rights in its planned buyout of the Calgary-based provider. He issued the new conditions at the end of the business day on Tuesday; hours later, Péladeau said they’d be in “the new version of the Rogers-Shaw/Quebecor-Freedom Mobile transaction, which has already been negotiated.” Rogers has also reportedly offered to sell fibre-optic infrastructure to Videotron to satisfy separate objections from the Competition Bureau.