Rogers overbuild rather unlikely, says Cogeco CEO

MONT TREMBLANT – Cogeco CEO Louis Audet said Thursday he thought it pretty improbably that Rogers Cable would want to overbuild his company’s regions of Halton, Oakville and Burlington. He was responding to a question at the CIBC Institutional Investor Conference at the Fairmont Mont Tremblant, Quebec. Cartt.ca broke the story last week that Rogers had applied to the CRTC to expand its cable licensed territories to include the large piece of Cogeco’s Ontario territory as well as that of Aurora Cable. Audet doesn’t figure Rogers has any plans to completely overbuild, as it would be far too costly. “I...