Ms. Jeanne Pratt at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On February 26th, 2024. See this statement in context.

February 26th, 2024 / 12:15 p.m.

Senior Deputy Commissioner, Mergers and Monopolistic Practices Branch, Competition Bureau Canada

I can speak generally. Ms. Sonley can probably speak in much more detail about what our submissions were to the CRTC.

We have a relatively stable oligopolistic market structure in Canada in the telecommunications sector. Our observations are that when a fourth player is able to come in and disrupt the existing players, it disrupts the oligopolistic market structure and it disrupts the coordination to the extent that we see prices coming down and quality going up.

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