[wbarbour]

This must hurt. This is a link to the Competition Bureaus notice. http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/03316.html

$10 million should send a message.

 

[apn]

Won't hurt at all.

Should be $100M, with a $15M system access fee.

 

[Tezster]

I don't think they're fined yet - this is just the start of the legal proceedings. Even if the judgement ultimately goes against Rogers, what are the chances they actually pay the entire fine? Probably not very high.

 

[Danster]

If they were dinged for misleading ads in NB, they'd be bankrupt by now. They do not offer the most HD channels than any other TV supplier.
I'm surprised they never got anything for that ad....

 

[DSgamby]

maybe because it is NB.

 

[57]

Shots fired back by Rogers:

http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20101120/rogers-false-advertising-claim-101120/20101120/?hub=OttawaHome

Rogers says it has independent third party testing to validate its claims.

 

[Danster]

Clearly will be a case of he said they said....

 

[TooSmooth]

Good. Rogers trying to kill of the new companies is a shame.

I am still pissed that they bought GM place and named it rogers arena.

 

[Eluder]

Didn't Bell use a similar slogan as Rogers did when they relaunched Solo Mobile? I swear they also said something along the lines of fewer dropped calls than the new guys.

 

[recneps77]

Solo runs similar ads - where's their fine?

Better yet, forget the chump change - if it's proven they are wrong, they should be required to run advertising correcting the error (for every incorrect ad they've aired, they should be made to run a corrected one)

Now, has anyone challenged bell on advertising fibe as "fibre optic internet" yet?