The Competition Bureau filed its latest appeal to the Federal Circuit on Friday, making two more statutory errors in the competition court’s decision allowing Rogers’ $26 billion acquisition of Shaw, according to a Globe and Mail report. claimed. The Secretariat said the court would not consider the provisional sale of Freedom Mobile, a subsidiary of Shaw’s wireless operator, to Quebec, a Quebec-based telecommunications company, between Rogers and Shaw. argues that only the transaction of. However, the arbitral tribunal argued that the December 29 decision would have been the same had the Bureau analyzed the merger in the way it wanted.
The bureau argues that the court failed to explain why the decisions were the same, which is an error of law. Furthermore, the Secretariat argued that the arbitral tribunal erroneously applied the merger legal test without considering the magnitude of the service price increase, the duration, and the magnitude of the merger’s impact. These allegations were added to the Bureau’s first appeal filed on Dec. 31, 2009, which called the Court for acting outside its jurisdiction by considering the sale of Freedom’s mobile in parallel with the original transaction. denounced and did so without the approval of the Bureau. The bureau said on January 1 he was scheduled to face off against Rogers and Shaw in federal appeals court on January 24, a week earlier. 31 Deadlines set by each company. Bureaus must submit their written claims by January 13th, and carriers must submit their claims by January 17th.