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Cogeco to look at wireless; says VOIP projections “too conservative”

QUEBEC CITY – Cogeco Inc. CEO Louis Audet said Thursday that the time has come for the company’s cable division to revisit offering wireless service to its customers. With EastLink and Access Communications selling Rogers Wireless service and with Videotron announcing this week that it will brand and sell its own service on the Rogers network, Audet was asked at the CIBC World Markets annual investors conference in Quebec City whether Cogeco was actively considering the service addition.“We’ve looked at it twice already,” said Audet. “We had concluded this time that we would launch our voice over IP service, get...