MONTREAL – Today, Cogeco Cable extended its digital phone service to Milton, Ont., as well as Matane, Sept-Îles, Baie Comeau and Port-Cartier, Québec.
Currently, 38% of homes passed in the corporation’s territories has access to digital phone service. Service will continue to be rolled out to most cities in Cogeco Cable’s territories by the end of 2006.
Cogeco Cable’s all-inclusive digital phone offer can be had by customers for as little as $44.99 per month if they subscribe to Cogeco Cable’s high-speed Internet and cable television service.
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OTTAWA – The federal government should open up broadcasting to market forces if it does the same for telecommunications, Cogeco Cable says.
The cableco says it welcomes the telecom policy review panel report issued Wednesday that recommends the feds reduce government and regulatory interference in telecommunications as much as possible. But that should extend to broadcasting, Cogeco says. While the panel’s mandate did not include examining broadcasting, its report did strongly urge the government to conduct a similar review of the broadcasting industry.
Cogeco agrees. “The report of the policy review panel is thought-provoking. However, it does not provide…
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By Greg O’Brien
I REMEMBER WHEN THEN-CRTC broadcasting vice-chair Andrée Wylie told the 1999 CCTA convention in Vancouver that the Commission had no intention of trying to regulate the Internet.
Because of it’s very nature, it’s impossible to regulate the Internet itself (unless you’re China or some other repressive government that deploys some painful cyber-clamps and doesn’t mind tossing people in jail for reading the New York Times or somesuch online), which the CRTC recognized early on. Plus, 1999 was pre tech-bubble and the opportunities of the ‘net seemed endless. Why toss up regulations in front of such potential?
That Commission…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable today launched its digital phone service in Waterdown, ON, near Hamilton.
Most residents will be able to sign up for the service, even if they don’t already have Cogeco’s cable hooked up.
More than one-third of homes in communities served by Cogeco have access to digital phone service, and the company is continuing to roll it out to most cities, expected to be completed by the end of this year.
Cogeco is offering bundling deals and free installation for a limited time.
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable Wednesday announced its Digital Voice service is available to the residents of Georgetown, Ont.
Georgetown is about a 45 minute drive west of Toronto.
Currently, 35% of homes passed in Cogeco’s territories have access to Digital Phone service, including some of its larger regions like Hamilton, Burlington and Oakville. Service will continue to be rolled out to most cities in Cogeco Cable’s territories by the end of 2006.
Cogeco’s voice over IP delivered service is meant to be a primary line replacement.
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TORONTO – Looking to the future (small screens, big screens, portable media, etc.) is great fun, but what’s really driving the industry rightnow? Of course, it’s the focus on the bundle of voice, video and high speed Internet.
Come hear – and interact with – three North American industry leaders who will set out the successes they’ve had, the opportunities they see, and the pitfalls to avoid, when it comes to the voice, video and data bundle. This session will be key for cable operators to hear new ideas from new sources and for programmers since there are significant…
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MONTREAL – Quebec’s Télévision Quatre Saisons network (TQS) has confirmed Louis Trépanier as its vice-president of programming, replacing Luc Doyon who resigned in January.
Trépanier, who’s been with the network for about eight years, moves up from his position as general manager of programming and will have the mandate to establish TQS’s long-term programming personality.
Among his immediate tasks will be to shore up the network’s evening news show “Le Grand Journal”, which TV critics dismissed as “infotainment” when actress Isabelle Maréchal was added to the mix last fall to provide commentary.
That experiment ended a few weeks ago,…
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MONTREAL – Like the residents of regions already served in Ontario and Québec, those in Rimouski, Rimouski-Est, Pointe-au-Père, Price, St-Anaclet, Ste-Flavie and Mont-Joli sectors now have access to Cogeco Digital Phone.
The product is Cogeco Cable’s VOIP-driven voice service.
Currently, about 34% of homes passed in the company’s footprint have access to the service, which will continue to be rolled out to most cities in Cogeco Cable’s territories by the end of 2006.
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"TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO, the CCTA board tasked Dean MacDonald, a small working group and I to develop a vision that would become the basis on which to build our public policy priorities," Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association president and CEO Michael Hennessy said in a note to association members sent out Wednesday.
What follows below is the rest of that final memo to members of an association which will soon be wound down.
In response, the working group and the CCTA team described a vision of an integrated broadband future where consumer choice regulated the market…
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DESPITE THE IMMINENT SHUTDOWN of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, a move which will cost 26 jobs, Canada’s smaller independent operators have already decided they must have a continuing presence in Ottawa.
As reported first by www.cartt.ca early Friday afternoon, Rogers Cable, the largest remaining member of the CCTA, decided to rescind its support of the association, effectively killing it – even though no other member wanted to pull the plug. Even Rogers didn’t really want to do it.
However, no CCTA member is blaming Rogers for the demise of the 50-plus year-old association. Indeed, the CCTA’s board of…
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