The deal has had some benefits so far.

Videotron has been aggressive with marketing Freedom's prices and service improvements leading to significantly better plans from the big guys.

Additionally, it has broken the Bell/Telus/Rogers collusion to not provide service on the subway.

RadioActive wrote:

Yes and Rogers has fully taken advantage of it being the only one who can provide that subway service. Interesting how that turned out, despite its insistence that it's "working" with other providers on the issue.
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They are. Bell and Telus are expected to be up and running soon.

This is from Open Media, an advocacy group that speaks on behalf of consumers against the Big Phone/Cable giants. These words are all theirs, not mine, although I can't help but agree with what they said.

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The Competition Tribunal just ruled that Canadians OWE Rogers $13 million for daring to try to stop their competition-busting deal to buy Shaw.

This is UNBELIEVABLE. Our Competition Act is so broken that not only can we not stop Rogers becoming Canada’s single largest telecom, now our regulator and YOUR taxes are being forced to PAY Rogers for even questioning their monopolistic rule... 

The first thing we need to do is FIX our Competition Act so a regulator can NEVER be sued this way...

Rogers’ bid to buy Shaw was approved despite everything that Minister Champagne said about championing affordability, allowing Rogers to become the single largest telecom company in the country.

At the time, we said that this will result in even higher prices, fewer jobs, and less telecom innovation in the years to come.

And we were right. On top of taking $13 million from Canadians for daring to question the Rogers-Shaw deal, Rogers is now asking to HIKE the wholesale rates for Quebecor — just months after Rogers sold Freedom Mobile to Quebecor in an attempt to make it look like their deal to buy Shaw wasn’t going to kill competition.

You’d think Rogers would have the decency to wait a bit longer before making obvious they’re never going to tolerate a fourth national phone provider. You’d think they’d pretend their promises to help Quebecor bring cheaper phone service to Canadians were worth the paper they were printed on. But when you’re as comfortable with your monopoly lifestyle as Rogers is, I guess not.

We knew the Rogers-Shaw deal wouldn’t result in more competition, we told our government that it would only strangle it further, and just a handful of months later it has already begun. 

We have to get our Competition Act fixed NOW. Real investigative powers, a tough mandate to protect and PROMOTE competition, and no right for companies to sue Canada for doing the bare minimum of protecting competition. 

Without strong competition laws we are at the mercy of megaliths like Rogers. 

Maybe the person from the Competitoin Bureau who made the ill advised decision to take this to the courts should be fired