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V buy would give Bell too much market share: PIAC, Quebecor

News | 12/03/2019 5:44 pm EST
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BCE Inc.’s proposed acquisition of French-language Groupe V Media Inc.’s conventional TV network V would exacerbate a “crisis” in local television and especially local news programming, would negatively impact competition, and “raise serious concerns about Bell’s exercise of market power,” according to an intervention by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. 

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