If you’ve been hoping for lower cell phone bills, you may want to stop hoping. The purchase of upstart cell provider Mobilicity by Telus which I reported on previously has been approved by an Ontario court:
The deal has already been approved by Mobilicity’s bondholders, which means final OK from Canada’s Competition Bureau and Industry Minister Christian Paradis are all that remain in terms of regulatory hurdles.
The issue with that approval will be what happens to Mobilicity’s spectrum licence, which is currently set to expire in 2014.
So there are still hurdles to overcome. But quite honestly,I do not see those hurdles as being an issue. The net result is that there will be one less player in the market at the end of this. As a result, consumers will still continue to pay the highest cell phone rates on planet earth. That’s a horrible distinction to have. Sadly, the Canadian Government’s desire to do something about that isn’t something that is on their to-do list.
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Telus Wins Approval To Buy Mobilicity….. Consumers Lose
If you’ve been hoping for lower cell phone bills, you may want to stop hoping. The purchase of upstart cell provider Mobilicity by Telus which I reported on previously has been approved by an Ontario court:
The deal has already been approved by Mobilicity’s bondholders, which means final OK from Canada’s Competition Bureau and Industry Minister Christian Paradis are all that remain in terms of regulatory hurdles.
The issue with that approval will be what happens to Mobilicity’s spectrum licence, which is currently set to expire in 2014.
So there are still hurdles to overcome. But quite honestly,I do not see those hurdles as being an issue. The net result is that there will be one less player in the market at the end of this. As a result, consumers will still continue to pay the highest cell phone rates on planet earth. That’s a horrible distinction to have. Sadly, the Canadian Government’s desire to do something about that isn’t something that is on their to-do list.
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