When Rogers announced plans to buy Shaw, Canada’s Competition Bureau fought the merger, citing concerns that the elimination of Shaw as a competitor would lead to harm for consumers, including price increases.

At the time, Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri pledged lower prices for customers and brushed aside competition concerns.

Earlier this year, Rogers upped the price of some cellphone, internet and home phone plans.

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    11 hours ago

    Their TV boxes are garbage too, my parents cannot get reliable 5GHz WiFi from the “gateway” and the devices cannot be configured to 2.4GHz only which works fine until it thinks the 5GHz signal is strong enough and automatically switches before dropping again. The only “solutions” Rogers provides are to move the router or to buy their overpriced “pod” repeaters.

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      6 hours ago

      Or wire in another router, and use the WiFi on that. It’s not great, with the double-N (most of Rogers routers are buggy in bridge-mode), but IMHO, it’s better than using their WiFi.