MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable today upgraded its high-speed Internet (HSI) service to handle up to 7 Mpbs in all its service areas.
The cableco is increasing the combined upload and download bit cap, so its Pro service limit will triple from 30 GB to 100 GB. The Standard service limit will quadruple from 15 GB to 60 GB, and the Lite (or Mini, in Quebec) limit will quintuple from 2 GB to 10 GB. The improvements will not cost customers extra.
Cogeco is bundling its HSI for $34.95 per month for 12 months when a subscriber gets digital cable…
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OTTAWA – The SCTE Ontario chapter general meeting will be held Thursday, April 27 in Ottawa.
The session topics will cover all aspects of fibre optics. Attendees will gain a better understanding of fiber optic fundamentals, DWDM, node splitting techniques, HFC reverse path issues and troubleshooting.
Times Fiber is also offering their plant tour on Wed. April 26 in Renfrew.
Deadline for registration is Monday, April 24. If you want lunch, pre-registration is mandatory. Vendor tables are still available, too.
Click here for the full agenda.
Other SCTE Ontario notes Due to the August long weekend, the golf date…
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MONTREAL Cogeco Cable launched its digital phone service in Grimsby, Ontario, this week.
Currently, 40% of homes passed in the corporation’s territories have 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.
www.cogeco.ca
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MONTREAL – Thanks to the newest season of Loft Story, results at Cogeco Radio and Television’s broadcast outlet TQS look a lot better this quarter, at least in the ratings.
Cogeco president and CEO Louis Audet told financial analysts Monday that during the nine-week run of the show, it pulled in about 1.4 million viewers on Sundays and over a million on the other two days in a week it aired. Then, of course, it "pulled the rest of the schedule with it," said Audet.
While the company’s far larger cable division drives the company, in the media sector,…
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MONTREAL – Subscriber growth across the board fuelled a strong second quarter of fiscal 2006, ended February 28th, for Cogeco Cable.
Capex guidance as well as revenue guidance for the year have increased thanks to high demand for all of the company’s products, said company president and CEO Louis Audet during a conference call with financial analysts Monday. For example, right now the company is booking 900 to 1,000 new phone customer install orders per week.
"We are pleased with the trend of these results. We have improved our revenue by 6.8%, operating income before amortization by 7.7% and…
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KELWONA – Attendees from the cable, telephone and utility industries who want to attend the Canadian Communications and Technology Trade Show and Seminars to be held May 17th and 18th in Kelowna, B.C. who want to save a few bucks on early bird rates have to register this week.
The show takes place at the Coast Capri Hotel & Spa and the trade show will offer more than 200 products and services from over 40 suppliers. Both days offer seminars on a variety of topics as well as a light lunch. Register in March and obtain the early bird discount….
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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.
www.cogeco.com
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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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