MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable launched three new business high speed Internet (HSI) packages in Belleville and Trenton, ON on Monday.
Powered by DOCSIS 3.0 technology, the new Business 28, Business Premium and Business Ultimate packages offer competitive speeds at advantageous pricing to address every business's specific needs, according to the company’s news release. All three packages include unlimited data transfer, easy access to static IP addresses, numerous email addresses, as well as Cogeco's security services optimized by F-Secure, a worldwide leader in the field of Internet security.
Existing Cogeco Business Solutions Internet customers in Belleville and Trenton will also…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco’s nascent U.S. acquisitions helped to offset weak Canadian results for the second quarter of 2014.
Revenue for the period ended February 28, 2014 increased by 13.1% ($60.0 million) to $518.5 million, driven by the cable segment, mainly as a result of the full quarter impact of the acquisition of Peer 1 Hosting, combined with favorable foreign exchange rates and organic growth from all operating units.
Adjusted EBITDA increased by 13.2% ($25.8 million) to $221.6 million compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2013. Profit for the period amounted to $58.5 million, up from $49.0 million for the same period of…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable continues to extend the reach of its home phone service, launching this week in the Quebec municipalities of Pabos, Chandler and Pabos Mills.
All Cogeco customers and the majority of the residents from these areas can subscribe to Cogeco's Home Phone service with a launch offer starting at $9.99 per month, with a subscription to the company’s digital TV and/or high speed Internet service.
Cogeco is offering three different packages – the Basic Line package, the Select package, and the Freedom package. Customers may then personalize their package with calling features that include voice mail, call display, call waiting,…
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OTTAWA and MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable Canada has been named Company of the Year by Women in Communications and Technology, (formerly known as Canadian Women in Communications), for 2013.
"The role of women in the organization is of the greatest importance to us here at Cogeco," said Cogeco Cable Canada president and CEO Louise St-Pierre, in a statement. “We firmly believe that our strengths lie, among other things, in our ability to attract the very best talent. The fact that women occupy so many senior executive positions at Cogeco is a clear indication of their significant contributions to the company's…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Data Services announced Thursday that Timmins, Ont.-based gold mining company Lake Shore Gold has signed on as a client and will move part of its IT infrastructure to a private cloud managed by Cogeco Data Services.
With five data centres in Canada, the company’s utility-based IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) model cloud infrastructure services are hosted at its tier 3 quality data centres which are connected by Cogeco Data Services extensive network.
“Although our traditional IT setup was still doing its job, our proactive move to a dedicated Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution made a lot of business sense,”…
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TORONTO – CHCH TV and Cogeco Cable announced Tuesday they are now offering advertisers the ability to customize their message to viewers according to their geolocation.
The broadcasters are using the Advatar addressable advertising platform from Invidi Technologies Corp. which supports geo-specific delivery. Cogeco and CHCH have also collaborated with software distributor Capital Networks Limited, which is managing the ad insertion operation for the Advatar platform.
“Cogeco is proud to be the first Canadian cable distributor to support television advertising by geolocation,” said Jean-Pierre Caveen, Cogeco’s VP of affiliate, partner and carrier relations, in a release. “This new and more efficient…
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MONTREAL – When most CEOs make a speech to a body like the Montreal Board of Trade, it’s usually to sing the praises of their own company – or to demand something be done by government to alter this or that within their own market or industry.
Rare is the CEO to come right out and make a strong political stand, but Cogeco CEO Louis Audet did just that Wednesday afternoon, attacking the provincial government for its actions (and inaction) and challenging business leaders to grab the bull by the horns and help drag the province into the future –…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – The Cogeco Program Development Fund invested $3.89 million in 39 drama projects in development and production last year, according to its 2012-2013 Annual Report.
The independent, private fund encourages the development and the production of new Canadian drama by Canadian writers to be produced by independent Canadian producers, in English or French, or (preferably) in both languages.
In total, the Cogeco Fund has invested over $41 million in more than 700 projects since its inception in 1992.
www.cogecofund.ca
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable this week launched its new Ultimate 120 high speed Internet package to its residential customers in Ontario and Quebec.
The Ultimate 120 package offers download speeds up to 120 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 10 Mbps. In Ontario, the package also includes a monthly data transfer capacity of 425 GB, while in Quebec, the monthly data transfer capacity is 400 GB.
Cogeco also launched a new business high speed Internet package, named Cogeco Business Ultimate, which offers download speeds of up to 120 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 10 Mbps.
The new package…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. kicked off its fiscal 2014 with a 20.7% increase in profits thanks to growth in its cable division, and told investors that it is currently testing a new “evolved video distribution platform”.
When asked if the new initiative is designed to cut costs, generate revenue, or assist with customer retention, president and CEO Louis Audet was quick to respond with “all of the above.”
“We anticipate that, in the fullness of time, the equipment to support this new advanced video platform will in fact be more advantageous than some of the proprietary technology that we are locked…
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