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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    22 hours ago

    Hey, everyone – Check out Mr. Moneybags here!

    In all seriousness, I do the same. We’re pretty fortunate to win at the game of life and not get stuck in the living-paycheque-to-paycheque hole, aren’t we?

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      17 hours ago

      Nah, this equipment is not as expensive as peoole think. But the ongoing cost to rent is astronomical.

      Plus, if you can afford a wildly expensive TV service, you can afford to buy the equipment outright.

      The real issue is that some equipment, like the Ignite TV box, isn’t sold separately, so you are always being gouged. 🤑

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        16 hours ago

        Sure, my experience was twenty years ago, but at the time my modem was roughly one month’s rent at a dive apartment.

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          14 hours ago

          but at the time my modem was roughly one month’s rent at a dive apartment.

          No way!?

          The last modem I purchased for Rogers supported their 1 gigabit plan, was a TP-Link cable modem back in 2018. It was $112.

          Before that, I purchased one through Teksavvy, and it was probably cheaper.

          These things pay for themselves in 6-12 months tops, then you’re saving money each month.

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            9 minutes ago

            Either Shaw was gouging, or the first couple generations of cable modems really were three times today’s cost. This was in the days where the DOCSIS standard capped out at 40Mb/s (which you only ever got close to when you happened to be downloading from a CDN hosted by shaw)