Posted AT 7:03 PM EST on 10/03/08
MTS, partners launch wireless bid
TORONTO — Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. has teamed up with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and U.S. private-equity firm Blackstone Group LP in a bid to create a fourth national wireless firm in Canada, they said Monday.
A little while later, Shaw Communications Inc., Canada's No.
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