MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable could add wireless service to its mix as the country’s newest Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), a move that it said will help foster wireless competition in a market dominated by incumbent providers.
In advance of its appearance Monday at the CRTC’s review of wholesale mobile wireless services, Cogeco said in a statement that it will seek “the implementation of appropriate regulatory measures to allow it to enter the wireless market as an MVNO to offer customers more choice, better value and differentiated wireless services”. MVNOs are mobile wireless service providers that lease capacity from facilities-based wireless…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable is continuing its roll out of new high speed Internet packages within its territory.
In a flurry of press releases over the last week, the company said that it has launched its Ultimate 120 and Ultimate 120 Unlimited high speed Internet residential packages plus the enhancement of its Turbo 20, Ultimate 55 and Ultimate 55 Unlimited high speed Internet packages in Magog, QC, as well as in Belleville and Trenton, ON.
Cogeco also brought its Ultimate 120 Unlimited high speed Internet residential package plus enhanced its Turbo 20 and Ultimate 55 Unlimited High Speed Internet packages in…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has launched its Ultimate 120 High Speed Internet (HSI) residential package and the enhancement of its Turbo 20 and Ultimate 55 High Speed Internet packages in Brockville and Chatham, ON.
The company says that current subscribers will be able to benefit from this improvement immediately. The Turbo 20 and Ultimate 55 high speed package upgrade includes an upload speed increase from up to 2 Mbps to up to 10 Mbps, at no additional cost.
The newly launched Ultimate 120 High Speed Internet package offers download speeds of up to 120 Mbps and upload speeds of up to…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has launched its Ultimate 120 High Speed Internet (HSI) residential package and the enhancement of its Turbo 20 and Ultimate 55 High Speed Internet packages in Cornwall, ON.
The company says that current subscribers will be able to benefit from this improvement immediately. The Turbo 20 and Ultimate 55 high speed package upgrade includes an upload speed increase from up to 2 Mbps to up to 10 Mbps, at no additional cost.
The newly launched Ultimate 120 High Speed Internet package offers download speeds of up to 120 Mbps and upload speeds of…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco’s senior vice-president and chief financial officer Pierre Gagne left the company Monday for what was described as “personal reasons”.
Gagne has held the role of CFO and SVP of Cogeco Cable and Cogeco Inc. since 2009. Prior to that, he served as VP of Finance at Cogeco for over a decade.
"On behalf of the Board and our employees, I wish to thank Pierre for his contribution to the company”, said president and CEO Louis Audet, in the announcement. “I want to take this opportunity to wish him the very best in the next phase of his professional…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Data Services has finalized a five-year partnership with Quebec-based Laurentian Bank to manage its corporate telecommunications program, the companies announced Tuesday.
Cogeco Data Services has pledged to increase the bank’s data capacity across Canada through a secure and privately hosted network, plus upgrade its entire telecommunications network and the technology infrastructure that supports Laurentian’s 225 offices and 425 ATMs.
"As a company that processes millions of transactions for clients across the country every year, industry-leading technology infrastructure is essential to Laurentian Bank's operations”, said Tony Ciciretto, president and CEO of Cogeco Data Services and Peer 1 Hosting,…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable said late Wednesday that it has written down its IPTV overlay project in Canada to the tune of $32.2 million in its third quarter, and will offer TiVo to its customers in Quebec and Ontario starting next year.
In its third quarter financial results, Cogeco said that it recognized an impairment of $32.2 million of property, plant and equipment, capitalized wages and borrowing costs related to an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) solution project on which its Canadian operations had worked. “As a result of the unexpected performance issues encountered with the platform, it had to be…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable said Thursday that it is offering two new high speed Internet (HSI) packages with unlimited data transfer capacity for its Quebec and Ontario customers, where technology permits.
The packages, Ultimate 55 Unlimited and Ultimate 120 Unlimited, were designed to meet the needs of the most data-hungry consumers by offering them flexibility and peace of mind in their day-to-day Internet usage, reads the company’s news release.
According to Cogeco’s website, Ultimate 55 Unlimited offers download speeds of up to 55 Mbps and starts at $73.95 per month for customers who already subscribe to two other Cogeco services…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has launched its Ultimate 120 High Speed Internet (HSI) residential package and the enhancement of its Turbo 20, and Ultimate 55 high speed Internet packages in North Bay and Peterborough, ON.
The company says that current subscribers will be able to benefit from this improvement immediately. The Turbo 20, and Ultimate 55 high speed package upgrade includes an upload speed increase from up to 2 Mbps to up to 10 Mbps, at no additional cost.
The newly launched Ultimate 120 High Speed Internet package offers download speeds of up to 120 Mbps and upload speeds of…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable, along with Magog Technopole and the downtown Magog revitalization committee, have launched wireless Internet along Principale and Merry streets in the city's downtown area.
The Wi-Fi hotspots on these two main arteries are powered by Cogeco, which installed 20 access points in that area. To log on, users simply choose the network "Cogeco Wi-Fi." With a population of 26,500 inhabitants, Magog is the central city of the Memphremagog Regional Country Municipality and the second largest in the Estrie region of Quebec after Sherbrooke. The launch of this pilot project is in keeping with Magog's vision of becoming…
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