Rogers CEO says Shaw deal would allow more money for network resiliency

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Staffieri made the case for approval of the proposed C$20 billion acquisition of Shaw while answering a parliamentary committee’s questions related to a major Rogers network outage that impacted millions of Canadians earlier in July.

“It allows us to … invest in the resiliency and redundancy of networks more than either one of us could do alone,” Staffieri said of the deal that has hit hurdles in an antitrust review by Canada’s competition watchdog.