I do agree. The only thing worse than Rogers would be AT&T Canada or RogersTimeWarner. The CRTC should have encouraged another player, foreign backed or not, to come in fresh. It has so much discretionary power that it could block a foreign takeover of one of the three members of the oligopoly if it turned out that way.
There's no logic to the CRTC anyway, so it could do whatever it or its political masters chose.
Especially considering net throttling STARTED in the United States by the big providers there. Comcast has had lots of service problems, I used to work for them in the past in high speed internet services, and between the various phone giants and Comcast I assure you no service quality increases would result in a US takeover.
I've seen Comcast's quality from an inside perspective. We actually had a BellSouth link for our business purposes at the service centre I worked at (ironic, yes LOL). You could take a bittorrent file on an 8Mbps advertised Comcast connection, and with all proper port forwarding and firewalls disabled, you'd find a file downloading at 25KB/sec, yet on BellSouth's connection that was actually slower (rated at 3 or 6 Mbps) I saw an identical file downloading on a different system at the same time at 250KB/sec.
The first thing a TimeWarner or Comcast takeover of Rogers that would happen is huge amounts of Canadian jobs would be cut in a major reorganization. They would then blend the service centers and servicing products into one brand, and as a corporation, try to do more with fewer employees. Your wait times for service would go up, the quality level would go down, and if any history here is a note for the future prices would actually increase in the long term anyway.
A buyout is simply bad for Canada.
Years after a buyout you'd find a large US based corporation lobbying Ottawa to change the law so they can replace any existing Canadian content and Canadian TV with all US brands in terms of TV content. The argument, as its always characterized, is free trade and freedom, freedom, freedom. Evil government regulation just getting in the way... Its always the argument coming from a monopoly or duopoly or whatever. The real question is freedom for who? Freedom for the individuals of a given nation, or freedom only for the corporation?
The CRTC has the power to regulate and to advise the current Canadian providers where will exists to do so, so why give up that soverignty just for no reason?