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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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – Members of the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance have not yet decided how it will deal with the demise this week of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association.
As first reported by www.cartt.ca, the board of the CCTA voted to close down the association less than two months after Shaw Communications resigned its membership. The association will shut its doors forever on Wednesday.
The loss of the CCTA can be overcome by the larger companies with big regulatory arms and more resources. However, for the smaller operators, the loss of the CCTA is devastating and leaves independent cablecos…
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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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MONTREAL – Treehouse On Demand and Kidz On Demand have been added to the VOD lineup for Cogeco Digital Cable customers.
"We are thrilled to introduce two new services that will be enjoyed by such a large number of households in our territories just in time for the spring break," says Ron Perrotta, vice-president of marketing. "Parents and kids are now in control of their favorite animated series. They can play, pause, stop, fast forward or replay programs as often as desired."
Treehouse On Demand, from Corus Entertainment, a channel for preschoolers, showcases a regularly-updated library of popular, parent-approved…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has doubled the speed of its high speed Internet “lite” service.
During February, HSI Lite download speed will be increased from 300 Kpbs up to a maximum of 640 Kbps in all regions served by Cogeco Cable where high-speed Internet is available. This new speed is 25% faster than that of the same category offered by the leading provider of DSL high-speed Internet, Bell Sympatico.
The monthly fee won’t change for subscribers. Cogeco Cable’s HSI Lite service is currently on promotion and available for $19.95 a month for a year, if combined with a digital television…
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AFTER A DOZEN OR SO years of lobbying the Liberal Party power establishment, the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom industries will have to start over beginning today.
No matter how long this new Conservative minority government lasts (we sorely hope it’s longer than Joe Clark’s eight months in 1979), those at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, as well as Canada’s large telcos, have brand new friends to make – and influence.
Issues like foreign ownership of telecom and cable companies, or even broadcasters, might get a more friendly hearing under the Conservatives…
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