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Cogeco preparing price increase on internet plans this spring

Telecom said Canadian wireless on track for “coming quarters” By Ahmad Hathout Cogeco executives said Tuesday the telecom will bump up the price of at least some of its internet services in Canada in March. President and CEO Frederic Perron said during a fiscal first quarter conference call the increase would be similar to past ones, but didn’t elaborate beyond that. The comments came in response to a question about competitors looking into increasing their prices and therefore their average-revenue-per-user (ARPU) metrics. Quebecor, for example, announced in November that it would be increasing the price of its internet plans in...