OTTAWA UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR Dr. Michael Geist is Canada’s leading proponent of network neutrality, which, as you’ll read, has many definitions.
Despite the differences in definitions, it’s primarily about treating most bits of data equally so that the free flow of information prospers and opportunities can be available equally to all.
In newspaper columns and on television and in his blog, Geist revisits this issue frequently and believes it’s only a matter of time before it is front and centre in Canadian politics.
The Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa recently sat down with…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable announced three senior appointments today, including the promotion of Louise St-Pierre as vice-president, customer services and Ontario operations.
St-Pierre is currently vice-president and chief information officer for the cable company. In her new position, she will oversee customer contact operations and residential sales for all of Canada and hold co-ordinating authority for the Ontario Operations.
She replaces Ontario VP Gaston Germain, who left the company this month to go to Pelmorex, as Cartt.ca first reported.
St-Pierre (pictured) joined Cogeco Cable in the summer of 1999 and over the last eight years, “has led the development of…
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MONTREAL – The Setanta premium sports service has been added to the channel lineups of Cogeco Cable digital customers.
The Setanta International Sports Pak offers access to live and delayed top flight European soccer, international rugby, and other global sports.
Setanta International Sports Pak will be available for free to the majority of Cogeco Digital Cable subscribers in Ontario until September 7. Customers will then be able to subscribe for $14.99 a month.
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MONTREAL- Cogeco Cable’s local phone customers will soon be receiving prepaid calling cards to be used for overseas calls.
The cable company has signed an agreement with Gold Line Telemanagement, Canada’s largest prepaid calling card service provider in Canada, to enable Cogeco’s voice over IP customers in Ontario to make calls abroad through Gold Line’s International Prepaid Calling service
The prepaid service enables customers to call abroad from Ontario through their Cogeco Digital Phone Service and while travelling 65 countries to any world land or mobile destination. Cogeco’s local phone customers will soon receive at home a prepaid calling…
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TORONTO – With several smaller cable operators looking to launch (and in the middle of launching) video on demand, CTAM Canada has put together a panel presentation on the topic for the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance annual general meeting next month.
"Building your VOD Business Plan" will feature a panel of experts expounding on about their VOD successes and challenges ranging from the ROI of VOD, securing content for the service and adver tising opportunities.
Delegates will also get a first-hand look at recent CTAM Canada research on VOD in Canada.
The panel members are: David Purdy, vice-president and…
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OAKVILLE – After steering Cogeco’s Ontario operations through a period of unprecedented growth over the past five years, Gaston Germain will move on to new challenges as president and COO at Pelmorex, beginning next month.
Staff at the parent company of The Weather Network and Météomédia were informed of the changes at the top last week which will also see company founder Pierre Morrissette retain his CEO title but begin to concentrate more on overall direction and strategy than the day-to-day running of the company.
Germain has a long history in the Canadian cable and television industry. Prior to…
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IF THERE HAS BEEN a Canadian television channel that has struggled more with its programming, carriage, ownership and identity than OUTtv, which began its life in September 2001 as Pridevision, we don’t know of it.
The original category one digital specialty service license went to a surprising place to begin with. The CRTC, preoccupied at the time with trying to uplift smaller broadcasters, gave the must-carry digital license to what then was Headline Media, the owners of what has become The Score, a straight-male all-sports station where no one had experience in the gay community.
Granted, Headline did partner…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable said today its public offering of three million subordinate voting shares announced on July 19, 2007 has closed, for gross proceeds of $153.45 million,
"The subordinate voting shares are being distributed to the public pursuant to a short form prospectus filed with securities regulatory authorities in each province and territory of Canada through an underwriting syndicate led by BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and including CIBC World Markets Inc., GMP Securities L.P., Scotia Capital Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc. and National Bank Financial Inc.," says the press release.
The offering will result in net proceeds to Cogeco…
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KELOWNA – The CommTech Show will return for its third year to the beautiful Okanagan Valley next spring on May 14 and 15 providing two days of back-to-back seminars hosted by Industry experts as well as an expected sold-out exhibitor forum with over 50 exhibitors representing thousands of products.
An earlier version of this story had the wrong dates. Cartt.ca regrets the error.
Over 50 companies attended the 2007 trade show and seminars and attendees included buyers, corporate safety experts, operations management, sub-contractors, inside & outside plant technicians, planning engineers and educators from the cable, telco, wireless, college, municipal and…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable Inc. has entered into an agreement with underwriters to raise $153 million through a share issue.
A syndicate of underwriters led by BMO Capital Markets, including CIBC World Markets Inc., GMP Securities L.P., Scotia Capital Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc., and National Bank Financial Inc., have agreed to buy on a bought deal basis 3 million subordinate voting shares by way of a short form prospectus.
Each voting share will cost $51.15, for gross proceeds of $153.45 million.
The net proceeds will be used to reduce debt and for “general corporate purposes,” Cogeco says.
The offering…
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