Canada already pays high wireline internet fees relative to the rest of the world and anything other than a price change downwards is bad for consumers. Its actually a lot more nuanced than that. Market influence and size of the new Rogers entity and a unified nation wide fiber backbone can mean a lot of other consumer level costs not related to cell service.
- They could start charging more for wholesale internet rates to TPIA customers i.e. Teksavvy, Primus, and others forcing raises increases in prices from those providers.
- They can use their increased customer base as an argument to implement fees towards streaming services, potentially increasing costs for things like Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.
- They can charge higher carriage fees for Rogers owned channels and drive up costs for channels to other pay TV service providers while favoring their own. This would unfairly favor Shaw vs. Telus for example.
Generally larger market size means bigger power that will be exploited negatively. Look at the Bell/MTS buyout to see what that meant and how it's going to kill Calgary jobs, lower competition, and increase end consumer pricing.