TORONTO, April 17 /CNW/ - Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. today responded to comments made by the Quebecor CEO regarding the Canadian wireless market. Rogers Communications Inc. welcomes competition and believes that any Canadian company should have the right to participate in Canada's wireless auction and to compete. However, we disagree with subsidies and favours being granted to new entrants, many of which are well financed communications companies. "I disagree strongly with the statements made by Quebecor regarding the wireless market. Canada has some of the lowest rates in the world and we are one of the top countries in the world for wireless usage," said Ted Rogers, President and CEO, Rogers Communications Inc. "Statistics and arguments to the contrary are being manipulated by those who want the government to give them favours when they build a wireless network - favours that Rogers never received." Further, to suggest that Canada does not have the most up to date technologies is simply untrue. "Our newly launched HSDPA network provides our customers with the fastest speed and most services in the world," added Ted Rogers. Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI; NYSE: RG) is a diversified Canadian communications and media company engaged in three primary lines of business. Rogers Wireless is Canada's largest wireless voice and data communications services provider and the country's only carrier operating on the world standard GSM technology platform. Rogers Cable and Telecom is Canada's largest cable television provider offering cable television, high-speed Internet access, residential telephony services, and video retailing, while its Rogers Business Solutions division is a national provider of voice communications services, data networking, and broadband Internet connectivity to small, medium and large businesses across the country. Rogers Media is Canada's premier collection of category leading media assets with businesses in radio and television broadcasting, televised shopping, publishing and sports entertainment. For further information about the Rogers group of companies, please visit www.rogers.com.