Canada’s Rogers Communications made a C$26bn (US$20.8bn) bid for rival Shaw Communications over a year ago, and talked up the benefits of a larger player to accelerate 5G roll-out. However, it now seems that Shaw’s mobile business may not be included in the deal at all. Rogers had said that a merger would generate C$2.5bn ($2bn) of extra investment in 5G networks over the next five years together with annual cost savings of C$1bn ($800m) within two years. But rather than accepting the view that merger would create a stronger 5G challenger – as the US authorities finally did for T-Mobile USA’s merger with Sprint, after certain conditions were imposed – the Canadian antitrust body is likely to force Rogers…