ROGERS IS ABOUT TO CHARGE 🇨🇦 FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF PAYING THEIR BILL. You can’t make this stuff up. Starting January 17, 2027, Rogers and Fido will introduce a 1.6% processing fee for customers paying their phone & internet bills by credit card. On a $200 monthly bill, that’s another $38.40 a year. Just for paying your bill. And here’s the kicker. Quebec customers are exempt. Why? Because Quebec’s consumer protection laws prohibit these surcharges. Apparently, consumers in the rest of Canada don’t deserve the same protection. Remember, Telus tried this in 2022. Consumer backlash eventually helped push it to reverse course. In 2022, Rogers said it had no plans to introduce a similar fee. Four years later, here we are. This is what happens when competition is weak. Instead of fighting to win customers, companies find new ways to charge the ones they already have.