It was just a rumour. Why would you come to a country where there are only as many people in New York state spread all over a huge land mass? Why would you come to a country full of rules, laws and red tape beyond where you are. Then on top of that if they ever showed up it would be Verizon Canada which won't have any financial relationship to the USA company other than branding. If they do come, we give discounts and reserve spectrum for them because they are a "new" company. Then they fail and go bankrupt leaving us holding the debt and empty promises. Look how much Target left us on the hook for that we all paid for when they left.
verizon initially setup an office here in canada, as they had heard rumors the feds were going to loosen telecommunication rules (which require telecommunication operations to be majority canadian owned). once they realized that wasnt going to happen, they packed up and left
And yet Roger’s still can’t fix the connection issue😂. Or maybe they just don’t bother. At least bell fibre internet provides you internet 24/7, Roger’s outage ratios are just a joke 😂
Every year, like clockwork. And they don’t just increase the price of new plans, they increase the price of old plans too! If you’ve had the same plan for a few years the price has gone up with no improvement in features or service! Paying more just so the CEOs can get new yachts!
@@DBeau73 in Western Europe the price for cable, internet and a cell phone good for calling 15 countries is 30 euros a month why is it with less coverage over 200 a month? Wake up and smell the coffee we are being gouched.
@@shauncameron8390 I take your young and don't realize how much more expensive things are in Wedtern Europe historically. Now because of Trudeau's price increases stuff I'd cheaper there across the board not just telecommunications. The food and everything. Our prices have gone up because Trudeau's friends are in charge
Cellphone and grocery prices rising continuously shows that Canada needs more competition in the market space not less. We are seriously at the mercy of 3 giants for most areas. The gov couldn’t get the grocery CEOs to lower prices and they won’t get the telecommunications ones to either.
Ah yes, classic outcome of the oligopolistic market. Hope we Canadians are happy that people in Asia are paying around $20 per month for 100 GB of data.
And the funny but sad thing is that $20 is an overestimation. It's closer to $10-12 for 100 gigs of data a month. And they also offer a carry forward feature where unused data gets carried over to the next month until you hit the cap
@@bendover19193 because it's cheaper to put up cell tower in Asia than Canada? Do you think construction worker in Asia makes $100k+ with union? Hell no, they make some of the lowest wages. Every business is cheaper to run in Asia because they don't have everyone going on strike every other day asking for more pay. I'm not defending Rogers or any Tel-Co but more fair comparison will be with US prices.
Lesson learned after the blackout from Rogers. Don't have the same provider for your cell phone and your internet. If one goes down, you still have the other.
@@bendover19193 Bell is not too bad. I'm getting 100GB 5G Unlimited/$45. First 100 GB is guarantee high speed, then they slow me down to LTE unlimited when I am past 100GB
How about allowing the US carriers into the market and compete against Rogers and Bell, strong competition & good legilation should facilitate lower costs...the fact that these two giant canadian telecoms companies have strangle hold on that part of the economic space for years upon years & the gov't stands idle and let it happen is a shame.
Problem is the big 3 own all the cellular inforstrutr in Canada. Any competitors would have to utilize the big 3 system to operate and as such they can demand payments from them high enough to make it impossible for them to offer better price. Unless the government builds its own infrastructure and offer licenses to other providers to utilize it equally we are kinda screwed
$7-$9 is a price of a whole plan in Europe, what the hell? Buy hey, good thing we got that Shaw Rogers merger, that helped a lot /s. This federal government ffs.
First we got housing eating up the pay checks, then we have groceries cost a little bit more every months, not enough so they had transportation fees, we’re I live it is now 5$. To top it all they’re increasing phone bills. There is something weird about this economy and I don’t like it
The Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) promotes the interests and protection of Canadian consumers. Well-informed and confident consumers help stimulate competition and innovation in the Canadian marketplace.
When you go Vietnam you can buy a SIM card that gets you like 10gigs of data for like 5 bucks CAD. There should be no reason our phone bills are this high… I’m not suggesting 5 dollar 10 gig plans… but it should not be $50 bucks either …
Rogers criminally scammed me for $600 on a cell phone plan that didn't work where I lived yet I couldn't cancel. I used zero minutes, yet was forced to pay in order to get my mortgage.
I'm really starting to feel that it is time to let the US compete in both our cell/internet and dairy markets. It wont happen obviously. The conservatives will fight to keep our current system. The liberals cant get it done, and the NDP wont get power. Id love to see a new voting system, like ranked.
Outrageous!!!! We already pay some of the highest cell rates in the world. Where’s the leadership to limit this monopolistic hold on consumers? Disgusting.
Just signed a new contract with Rogers less than 6 months ago, and they're already raising prices. I realize that somewhere in the fine print weasel language it states they have the right to do so. Boggles the mind, how they think it's OK to increase price on a two year contract they agreed to less than six months ago. Seems like bait and switch, which is illegal. And no, they don't all do this. I was on Koodo for a while, and they never changed pricing on a plan you had agreed to. Suffice to say, looking for an exit strategy from Rogers.
Living in such a large country with a relatively small population that's concentrated into pockets spread out across the landmass, not to mention the lack of competition, I pay $60/mo for 100GB of data. Except that I live in Australia! So tell me how Rogers and Bell get away with charging such extortionate fees using the same tired excuses when the same scenario applies to the Australian market, which also happens to be more remote.
the two metrics for pricing phones plans are gameable. firs is the main $perGig encourage costly gig plan 60$plus for gigs we dont need. the 2end is all in cost plan. phone plans for 20$ with no data allocation. the metric should be some of both. how much does 30$ gives you all in
Its fashionable to pile on the telcos, but this one confuses me and makes me wonder if an honest look was taken at current plan pricing before going to press with this story. Big changes in plans have been happening right in front of us over these last couple months. You dont have to look very hard to find plans for $34 for 30GB for 2 years right now, some down to $29. The $5.37 per GB number in the story for Canada is yesterday's news when there are plans everywhere giving anywhere from 50 to 100GB for $50-60 and thats without getting into the fact that most plans are unlimited now, just throttling speeds after those GB maxes. As far as the increase for off-contract, are people not shopping around when their plan comes up and just keep paying the bill and whatever charges show up on it? Are the big monthly numbers racking up by including financing on $1800 phones when if looking to have an economical phone you can get a good used one for 300-400? I just don't get it.
Imagine you bought gasoline like this. That said there's some great deals out there. 60gb of 5g data for like 35mo BYOD. It's good to see the BYOD discounts.
Bell applied a Ten dollar monthly service fee to all Pay-As-You -Go customers several months ago. A $25 dollar top up card gives you $15 dollars worth of talk and text.
Hopefully it does, you're on here using that Internet to defend the same politicians who pushed for this merger cause they wanted to give a kickback to their fave donor. What's good for the goose is good for the gander as you do always eloquently remind us Thrillhouse. Bring home...higher cost of living right Thrilly Vanilli?
@@shenitasalade8623 I never voted for Trudeau, and name 1 good thing that Pierre Poilievre has "brought home" for Canadians. Your dude is literally an enemy of freedom and the working class
@@shenitasalade8623 BTW, it is public records how much corps are giving to political parties. Conservatives always get more because they are pro-business. If you think Trudeau is soft on businesses, Conservatives are way more. Harper abolished more higher paid jobs to created the same amount of minimum salary jobs than Trudeau ever did. So right now, they are seeing that the Liberals have lost the NDP support and are getting ready for the Conservatives to get back in power. Nothing like a minority government for them to screw things up for all of us.
@@thrillhouse7867 Conservatives have always been pro-business and anti-working class and Union. The total opposite of the NDP. Conservatives aren't even the opposite of the Liberals who are the ones that are closer to the middle. But with Trudeau that is so soft, the guy melts when he's under pressure. We are just going bad to worse.
Canada’s lack of telecom competition is the reason Canadians forced to pay the highest wireless rates in the world.
The government likes it that way.
@@purple7vi0let
And so do Canadians themselves. At least we're not like those Americans, right?
@@shauncameron8390 I mean.. to a certain degree, yeah but corporations are giants in Canada. What can the avg Joe do ?
And Roger’s still hasn’t fixed the connection problem
Prices are already crazy high.
10+ years ago Verizon was rumored to expand into Canada.
Bell , Rogers and Telus went into panic mode cause they don’t like competition.
I don't think foreign owned companies are allowed to operated here. CRTC rules.
It was just a rumour. Why would you come to a country where there are only as many people in New York state spread all over a huge land mass? Why would you come to a country full of rules, laws and red tape beyond where you are.
Then on top of that if they ever showed up it would be Verizon Canada which won't have any financial relationship to the USA company other than branding.
If they do come, we give discounts and reserve spectrum for them because they are a "new" company. Then they fail and go bankrupt leaving us holding the debt and empty promises. Look how much Target left us on the hook for that we all paid for when they left.
verizon initially setup an office here in canada, as they had heard rumors the feds were going to loosen telecommunication rules (which require telecommunication operations to be majority canadian owned). once they realized that wasnt going to happen, they packed up and left
They wanna keep monopoly so they can price fix
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Rogers bought Shaw and claimed that this merge will result in lower prices for both internet and mobile services. Liars
Government officials who allowed this should be put in jail.
When will people stop believing govt and corporations
We Canadians pay the highest premium on Cell phone connections ON THE PLANET.
And yet Roger’s still can’t fix the connection issue😂. Or maybe they just don’t bother. At least bell fibre internet provides you internet 24/7, Roger’s outage ratios are just a joke 😂
Every year, like clockwork. And they don’t just increase the price of new plans, they increase the price of old plans too! If you’ve had the same plan for a few years the price has gone up with no improvement in features or service! Paying more just so the CEOs can get new yachts!
but the competition bureau said that yet another merger would be just fine. yeah. just fine
The ceos of rogers and bell should be held accountable in a court of law
For what? You're not going to get robbery to stick, they say they provide a service and the cost of everything went up.
@@DBeau73 in Western Europe the price for cable, internet and a cell phone good for calling 15 countries is 30 euros a month why is it with less coverage over 200 a month? Wake up and smell the coffee we are being gouched.
@@SnowWhite-hr4ho
Western Europe is densely populated with a small landmass so it doesn't cost much to maintain infrastructure.
@@shauncameron8390 I take your young and don't realize how much more expensive things are in Wedtern Europe historically. Now because of Trudeau's price increases stuff I'd cheaper there across the board not just telecommunications. The food and everything. Our prices have gone up because Trudeau's friends are in charge
Add the crtc as well
Cellphone and grocery prices rising continuously shows that Canada needs more competition in the market space not less. We are seriously at the mercy of 3 giants for most areas. The gov couldn’t get the grocery CEOs to lower prices and they won’t get the telecommunications ones to either.
Telecom's should be regulated like any other utility where they have to apply for permission to raise rates
They already are.
The crtc is in the back pocket so they will never do anything for us
Ah yes, classic outcome of the oligopolistic market. Hope we Canadians are happy that people in Asia are paying around $20 per month for 100 GB of data.
And the funny but sad thing is that $20 is an overestimation. It's closer to $10-12 for 100 gigs of data a month. And they also offer a carry forward feature where unused data gets carried over to the next month until you hit the cap
@@bendover19193 because it's cheaper to put up cell tower in Asia than Canada? Do you think construction worker in Asia makes $100k+ with union? Hell no, they make some of the lowest wages. Every business is cheaper to run in Asia because they don't have everyone going on strike every other day asking for more pay.
I'm not defending Rogers or any Tel-Co but more fair comparison will be with US prices.
It's not a fair comparison. Asia is a much much bigger market
@@lizliz4186 How about Australia then? Similar sized country, smaller sized population - $25/month 140 GB
Bills are already outrageous.
Roger is a Canadian telecommunications company.
Lesson learned after the blackout from Rogers.
Don't have the same provider for your cell phone and your internet.
If one goes down, you still have the other.
FYI - Rogers is rip-off. Better deals are available elsewhere
So are their competitors: Bell and Telus. They don't let any other minor telecom company succeed
@@bendover19193 Bell is not too bad. I'm getting 100GB 5G Unlimited/$45. First 100 GB is guarantee high speed, then they slow me down to LTE unlimited when I am past 100GB
Not after rogers telus and bell buy all the competition
@@leecampbell9498
Except Videotron.
Robbers wireless still living up to their name. Never believe anything they tell you. Ever.
Rodgers is a billion dollar company, now trying to make a trillion!
Rodgers?
Yes why not? The government and CEO are buddy buddies, you scratch my back, I scratch yours. This is how things are in Canada my friends…..
"Improve" improve their PROFITS AND CORPORATE GREED
Makes sense. I got so many calls from them on super "great" deals to swap to them. Now I see why.
They called me offering a low cost plan guaranteed for life.
@@lizliz4186it’s a lie. I called to lower my phone and they could only do $5 but they’ve already increased it back up
lol because service has been so great. A trusted Canadian company.
They bought Shaw - it was inevitable that this would happen.
How about allowing the US carriers into the market and compete against Rogers and Bell, strong competition & good legilation should facilitate lower costs...the fact that these two giant canadian telecoms companies have strangle hold on that part of the economic space for years upon years & the gov't stands idle and let it happen is a shame.
Problem is the big 3 own all the cellular inforstrutr in Canada. Any competitors would have to utilize the big 3 system to operate and as such they can demand payments from them high enough to make it impossible for them to offer better price. Unless the government builds its own infrastructure and offer licenses to other providers to utilize it equally we are kinda screwed
Canada is a larger land mass than the US with 10% of their population. They wouldn't be able to be profitable.
GREEEEEEEEEEED
Life is nothing but a rip off.
$7-$9 is a price of a whole plan in Europe, what the hell? Buy hey, good thing we got that Shaw Rogers merger, that helped a lot /s. This federal government ffs.
telus is fine.. the others are explained nasally
i'm about to cancel my phone plan all together. life was better before cell phones and the internet. canada continues to be a garbage country
Oh but I thought Telecom prices were supposed to go down ? Didn’t the liberal government make a big announcement about prices going down.
First we got housing eating up the pay checks, then we have groceries cost a little bit more every months, not enough so they had transportation fees, we’re I live it is now 5$. To top it all they’re increasing phone bills. There is something weird about this economy and I don’t like it
Corporate Greed
@@Darkstar2630
No. Government over-regulation and taxation.
To do what they can get away with, yes, that's about it. Keep scamming purchasers.
Nothing to do about it when there is a monopoly
This is just greediness, and anticonsumer behaviour. Canada needs to have a consumer protection agency.
The Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) promotes the interests and protection of Canadian consumers. Well-informed and confident consumers help stimulate competition and innovation in the Canadian marketplace.
Why we need competition. They cut corners, make us wait for hours to talk to people and nothing changes overall.
There shouldnt be outrage over this, just switch plans. So many good cell phone plans out there with phone deals.
I wonder what happens to former Shaw customers who were told to transition to the Rogers network. Are they paying more too?
Of course they are. They lie because they know they can get away with it.
When you go Vietnam you can buy a SIM card that gets you like 10gigs of data for like 5 bucks CAD. There should be no reason our phone bills are this high… I’m not suggesting 5 dollar 10 gig plans… but it should not be $50 bucks either …
They r over charging people to much. Y is there no rules to avoid this.....people hard should we pay high bills
When will this criminality be regulated? Most expensive phone rates in the world, because. Disgusting!
Very easy fix for this. People just need to change their providers. When they losse a mass group of customers the greed will be put into check
looks like im switching to pay-as-you-go
Roger is a Canadian telecommunications company.
AouadSidahmed u mean to say u dont know the services that Rogers provides
Rogers criminally scammed me for $600 on a cell phone plan that didn't work where I lived yet I couldn't cancel. I used zero minutes, yet was forced to pay in order to get my mortgage.
This is what you get when you own the machinery that Canadians MUST have, and there is very little competition.
I'm really starting to feel that it is time to let the US compete in both our cell/internet and dairy markets. It wont happen obviously. The conservatives will fight to keep our current system. The liberals cant get it done, and the NDP wont get power. Id love to see a new voting system, like ranked.
It's time for the government to either step in and actually do something for a change, or take control of these companies directly.
That's the last thing Canada needs. State monopoly.
They won’t
It's all going according to plan.
Welcome to canada
My little plan has gone up $3.00, but it's not the money, its the principle of the thing, not that there's any principles left in Canada.
Outrageous!!!! We already pay some of the highest cell rates in the world. Where’s the leadership to limit this monopolistic hold on consumers? Disgusting.
SO?? IF you don't like the price, go elsewhere! Or force your government to open up competition to foreign providers.
They're not called Robber's Cable for no reason.
Just signed a new contract with Rogers less than 6 months ago, and they're already raising prices. I realize that somewhere in the fine print weasel language it states they have the right to do so. Boggles the mind, how they think it's OK to increase price on a two year contract they agreed to less than six months ago. Seems like bait and switch, which is illegal. And no, they don't all do this. I was on Koodo for a while, and they never changed pricing on a plan you had agreed to. Suffice to say, looking for an exit strategy from Rogers.
All it takes is enough like me to cancel your cell phone and don't pay them
Just quit using their services. We never used cell phones in the 60th so we can return to those good old days.
LOL That's the same as telling people; "If you don't like the price of gas...buy a horse".
Living in such a large country with a relatively small population that's concentrated into pockets spread out across the landmass, not to mention the lack of competition, I pay $60/mo for 100GB of data.
Except that I live in Australia! So tell me how Rogers and Bell get away with charging such extortionate fees using the same tired excuses when the same scenario applies to the Australian market, which also happens to be more remote.
Lol use this money for better services... Yeah right
SWITCHING TO TELUS
Rogers is trash
So glad I’m with Freedom. They’re truly the best in this Canadian market.
@sjtwstot acccctually, no Rogers doesn’t own them via Shaw.
Shaw sold Freedom to Quebecor before the Rogers acquisition closed!
I’ll be reducing my use and my plan
No more protectionism!!!
More of a reason to not go with rogers.
the two metrics for pricing phones plans are gameable. firs is the main $perGig encourage costly gig plan 60$plus for gigs we dont need. the 2end is all in cost plan. phone plans for 20$ with no data allocation. the metric should be some of both. how much does 30$ gives you all in
Its fashionable to pile on the telcos, but this one confuses me and makes me wonder if an honest look was taken at current plan pricing before going to press with this story. Big changes in plans have been happening right in front of us over these last couple months. You dont have to look very hard to find plans for $34 for 30GB for 2 years right now, some down to $29. The $5.37 per GB number in the story for Canada is yesterday's news when there are plans everywhere giving anywhere from 50 to 100GB for $50-60 and thats without getting into the fact that most plans are unlimited now, just throttling speeds after those GB maxes. As far as the increase for off-contract, are people not shopping around when their plan comes up and just keep paying the bill and whatever charges show up on it? Are the big monthly numbers racking up by including financing on $1800 phones when if looking to have an economical phone you can get a good used one for 300-400? I just don't get it.
Imagine you bought gasoline like this.
That said there's some great deals out there. 60gb of 5g data for like 35mo BYOD. It's good to see the BYOD discounts.
What about Satellite?
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Yep watch all the other companies follow suit I miss the old trap phones
I got a notice for price increase from Bell to increase $6. Good thing there are promos available to switch over to a different provider
Bell applied a Ten dollar monthly service fee to all Pay-As-You -Go customers several months ago. A $25 dollar top up card gives you $15 dollars worth of talk and text.
Damn. When will the feds step in.
Mr. Rogers in the Neighborhood, I was told when I last visited Canada. That company seems to control all cell and cable there. 😮
And IT DOES!
What? Didn’t Rogers just take over Shaw? Is it going to make the market more competitive?
Hopefully this doesnt happen with other providers.... my internet and phone plans have dropped in price over the last few years
Hopefully it does, you're on here using that Internet to defend the same politicians who pushed for this merger cause they wanted to give a kickback to their fave donor. What's good for the goose is good for the gander as you do always eloquently remind us Thrillhouse. Bring home...higher cost of living right Thrilly Vanilli?
@@shenitasalade8623 I never voted for Trudeau, and name 1 good thing that Pierre Poilievre has "brought home" for Canadians. Your dude is literally an enemy of freedom and the working class
@@shenitasalade8623 BTW, it is public records how much corps are giving to political parties. Conservatives always get more because they are pro-business. If you think Trudeau is soft on businesses, Conservatives are way more. Harper abolished more higher paid jobs to created the same amount of minimum salary jobs than Trudeau ever did.
So right now, they are seeing that the Liberals have lost the NDP support and are getting ready for the Conservatives to get back in power. Nothing like a minority government for them to screw things up for all of us.
@@thrillhouse7867 Conservatives have always been pro-business and anti-working class and Union. The total opposite of the NDP. Conservatives aren't even the opposite of the Liberals who are the ones that are closer to the middle. But with Trudeau that is so soft, the guy melts when he's under pressure. We are just going bad to worse.
@@thrillhouse7867 well maybe he'd encourage competition over consolidation. It's not like the Rogers family bankrolled him all around the GTA.
prepaid
The weakness of Canada legislation to internet and mobile industry ? or our PM cares ?
prices are already high? are they crazy?