MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has launched its digital phone service in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., the fifth community to receive it since the company started rolling out the service this June.
Starting today, Cogeco’s high-speed Internet customers in Saint-Hyacinthe can replace their traditional phone service with the cableco’s securely routed private network and keep their existing phone numbers, phones, and outlets.
Customers who already subscribe to Cogeco’s high speed and cable TV services can add the digital phone service for $39.99 a month, while those who get the Internet connection on a standalone basis can subscribe to the phone service for…
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WHILE WE CAN’T SAY for sure that Compton Communications will be the smallest North American video on demand provider when it launches this fall, we figure it’s pretty unlikely that many other 5,000-customer cable companies in Canada or the U.S. are planning on offering it that soon.
It’s a very expensive technology, fraught with difficult to solve issues, especially for a small operator. Think Paramount’s EVP of programming will have Compton’s VOD launch on his priority list, for example?
Compton Cable (which serves the Port Perry, Ont. region, about an hour’s drive northeast of Toronto, on Lake Scugog) has…
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WINDSOR – Cogeco Cable expanded its telephony territory in Ontario today with the launch of its Digital Phone service in Windsor, Ont.
This follows the launch this year in Burlington and Oakville, Ont., as well as Trois-Rivières and Drummondville, Québec.
The service is available to approximately 75% of Cogeco’s high speed Internet (HSI) customers in Windsor starting today. Service should soon be extended to the rest of Windsor city homes and will continue to be extended gradually to most cities in Cogeco Cable’s territories by the end of 2006.
The company’s Windsor-based HSI and cable television service subscribers can take…
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TORONTO – Look forward to seeing every grain of sand in the bunkers – not to mention every drop of sweat rolling down John Daly’s thick neck – as TSN and CTV will show every minute of the Bell Canadian Open golf tournament in high definition.
The Bell Globemedia TV channels today announced live coverage of the first two rounds will air September 8 and 9 beginning at 1 p.m. ET on TSN and TSN HD. The third and final rounds on September 10 and 11 will be seen live on TSN and TSN HD from 1 p.m. to…
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MONTREAL – The man who ran TQS from 1998 to 2003 – and who just presided over the recently completed World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, has been hired by Cogeco Inc. as president and CEO of the company’s radio and TV properties. Cogeco president and CEO Louis Audet made the announcement today. Guimond (right) will be responsible for all aspects of management and business development of Cogeco Radio Télévision Inc. (CRTI), and more specifically of TQS television network, RYTHME FM radio network and 93 3 radio station.
Guimond had been…
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – As if the voice market wasn’t crowded or confusing enough, Google Inc. yesterday launched Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables its Gmail users to quickly and easily talk or IM with their friends for free.
Google Talk is not voice in the way that carriers such as Bell or Rogers or Shaw or Cogeco or Primus offer it. Those carriers offer voice service the way most people use it – on the phone. Google Talk is chatting via computer
"Google Talk further enriches our users’ communications experience, whether they choose to communicate via…
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MONTREAL – As of today, Cogeco Cable high speed Internet subscribers in Drummondville, Que., can become Cogeco Digital Phone customers.
Drummondville is now the second city in Québec, after Trois-Rivières, to enjoy Cogeco Cable’s Digital Phone service. Service will continue to be extended gradually to most cities in Cogeco Cable’s territories by the end of 2006 and is currently available in parts of Cogeco’s Ontario corridor.
Cogeco’s voice package includes unlimited calling in Canada and the continental United States, five key calling features, as well as basic operator assistance and information services.
Cogeco Cable’s Drummondville-based HSI and cable television…
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MONTREAL – Videotron is adding telephony customers as fast as it can keep up and the company announced today that it is rolling out its residential cable telephone service in Montreal.
Consumer response to Videotron’s new product has been strong and as of August 12, six months after the service was launched, more than 62,500 customers in Laval, the South Shore, the West Island and the Quebec City area had made the switch.
Those numbers make Videotron the leader among telecom companies in Canada that provide telephone service via IP (Internet Protocol) technology, but early reports out of Shaw,…
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PHILADELPHIA – While CTAM Canada put together a fun night for programmers and distributors on Sunday evening here in Philadelphia (see photos below this story), CTAM Summit attendees on Monday morning were shown that the programmer-distributor relationship can be as contentious as ever when we start talking about high definition.
During the “Monetizing Advanced Video Services” session, Time Warner Cable’s SVP programming Lynne Costantini, Showtime Networks’ SVP marketing Geof Rochester and Channing Dawson, SVP emerging media at Scripps Networks (Food Network, HGTV, Fine Living, DIY Network) argued about who should pay for HDTV.
When Dawson complained about the high…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today called for comments on adding five foreign third language services to the eligible satellite list.
The Commission issued the notice today after receiving requests from the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association and Rogers to add NTV Bangla, Azteca 13 International, TV Chile, TVE Internacional and Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica to the list of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis.
NTV Bangla is a 24-hour general interest service offering a variety of programming including news, current affairs, sports, documentaries, comedies, movies, serial dramas, and children’s entertainment with 98% of its programming in…
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