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April 14 (Reuters) - Canada's Shaw Communications Inc
SJRb.TO posted a 3 percent rise in quarterly revenue as it
added more retail Internet customers.
Calgary-based Shaw has transformed itself into a pure-play
communications company, purchasing the country's fourth largest
wireless company Wind Mobile in late February and selling its
media assets to Corus Entertainment Inc CJRb.TO in a deal that
closed earlier this month.
Shaw, which competes with Telus Corp T.TO in Western
Canada, said its consumer unit added more than 4000 internet
customers in the quarter.
The company's net income fell to C$164 million, or 32
Canadian cents per share, in the second quarter ended Feb. 29,
from C$168 million, or 34 Canadian cents per share, a year
earlier.
Shaw's quarterly revenue rose to C$1.15 billion from $1.12
billion.