MONTREAL – When Cogeco Connexion announced in 2018 its next generation video platform would come via MediaKind’s MediaFirst TV Platform, it said the new product would be in the market by the end of 2019.
While it is currently being tested in employee and other friendly homes, the company won’t be taking it to its Ontario and Quebec customers until sometime in the first quarter of 2020, a spokesperson told Cartt.ca this week.
“We’re getting ready to launch it progressively in 2020,” said Marie-Hélène Labrie, the company’s senior vice-president of public affairs and communications in an interview. Once launched, the…
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MONTREAL — Cogeco Communications announced today Ken Smithard, president of its Cogeco Connexion subsidiary, will be leaving the organization at the end of January 2020. He has been with the company for two decades.
Smithard is departing to pursue personal interests, the company said in a short news release. A recruitment process for his successor is being launched, the company said.
“On behalf of my colleagues and the entire Cogeco Communications team, I wish to thank Ken for his 20 years of dedication to the company and his tireless work,” said Philippe Jetté, president and CEO of Cogeco Communications, in…
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MONTREAL – Broadband provider and broadcaster Cogeco Inc. saw its fourth quarter 2019 revenue increase by 3.1% compared to Q4 last year to reach $610.5 million, the company reported late Wednesday.
Revenue for the full fiscal year, ended August 31st, came in at $2.44 billion, an 8% increase.
Revenue increased in the company’s communications (video, broadband, home phone) segment, “mostly as a result of organic growth and the acquisition of the south Florida fibre network previously owned by FiberLight… on October 3, 2018 combined with the activation of bulk properties in Florida during the fourth quarter of…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Communications announced today the appointment of Frank van der Post as president of its American division, Atlantic Broadband, effective November 4, 2019. He will be based in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Van der Post (right) joins Atlantic Broadband from KPN, a Dutch operator with more than seven million customers in the residential and enterprise markets, where he served as chief commercial officer. Before joining that telecom company, he spent several years in the airline and hospitality industries for British Airways and InterContinental Hotels Group.
“I am excited to join Atlantic Broadband and Cogeco Communications, and am delighted to be…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Connexion announced Friday that its president, Ken Smithard, has been named to Canada’s Clean16 list for 2020, in the Technology & Telecom category.
Canada’s Clean16 are determined by Delta Management Group and its criteria in determining honourees is to consider measurable green accomplishments.
“In the last two years, Cogeco Connexion’s efforts have resulted in decreased greenhouse gas emissions by an astonishing 21%, the collection of more than 625,000 kilos of electronic waste, and have given a second life to 1.5 million refurbished units. Ken supported the implementation of employee-led initiatives such as carpooling system, urban beehives and…
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TORONTO – Managed hosting and cloud services provider Cogeco Peer 1, today announced it has changed its name to Aptum Technologies. The move follows the $720 million acquisition of the company from Cogeco Communications by Digital Colony.
“Aptum means ‘adaptability’ and reflects our heritage and vision for the future,” said Susan Bowen, Aptum CEO, in the press release earlier this week. Bowen was president of Cogeco Peer 1 prior to the sale of the company. “As businesses face exponentially increasing volumes of information, and data becomes an integral part of their infrastructure, technology platforms must adapt…
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OTTAWA – The federal government today announced $2.2 million in funding for Cogeco Connexion to bring new or improved high-speed Internet access and capacity to the communities of Mountain View and Glasgow Station.
In addition to the Government of Canada investment, Cogeco Connexion is contributing just over $995,000, bringing the total investment to $3.2 million. Glasgow Station is just west of Ottawa and Mountain View is in Prince Edward County, just south of Belleville.
The announcement was made by Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Rural Economic Development and the money comes from the Connect to Innovate program.
"Thanks to our strong regional presence,…
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Canadian broadband revenue slips
MONTREAL –Cogeco Communications reported Wednesday evening third quarter revenue increased by 3.6% to reach $587.3 million, mainly driven by the 10% growth in its American broadband services segment.
On a constant currency basis, revenue increased by 1.7% in the period ended May 31, 2019.
American broadband services revenue increased by 5.4%, resulting from rate increases implemented in August 2018, the continued growth in Internet and telephony services customers as well as the acquisition in late 2018 of the south Florida fibre network previously owned by FiberLight. The increase was partly offset by a…
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MONTREAL – Earlier this month Cogeco announced it has hired Marie Ginette Lepage (pictured) as its new vice-president, wireless solutions and innovation.
Lepage was most recently with Stingray, as SVP, global sales and mobile solutions and before that, she spent more than 10 years at Vidéotron where she held several senior roles. After managing the wireless service once offered by Vidéotron as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), she led the roll-out of the company’s mobile network in September 2010, notes Cogeco’s announcement to staff.
“In her role as Vice President, Wireless Solutions and Innovation, she is responsible for developing and…
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MONTREAL – Cogceo Communications is investing more than $1 billion over the next four years to push its broadband network and other services deeper in to Ontario and Quebec.
The company said Wednesday that its “strong regional presence” will allow it to increase access to high-speed Internet in unserved and underserved areas in the two provinces. Its hybrid fibre coaxial cable network is presently available in more than 400 municipalities via its Cogeco Connexion subsidiary.
“Thanks to the strong local presence we’ve been building for the past 60 years, we can gauge first-hand just how important high-speed Internet connectivity is for communities, and…
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