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.
Sure, my experience was twenty years 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.
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)