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.
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)