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Virgin accuses Rogers of “making up fees”

TORONTO - Virgin chair Sir Richard Branson has called for the establishment of new standards for the mobile industry that would abolish “bogus” fees and force mobile companies to stop “misleading consumers”.In an apparent response to Rogers’ plan to drop its system access fee but add a new fee called the government regulatory recovery fee, Virgin has launched a national ad campaign that it says “directly calls out Rogers' bogus fee”.“I'd like to congratulate Rogers for removing one fee that never made sense, but I'm perplexed to hear that they've replaced it with another equally confusing one”, Branson said in...