MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has added TVA Sports to its programming lineup in Quebec, and is offering the French-language sports channel to its digital TV customers in the province free of charge for one year.
The new channel is available now on channel 88 in SD, and in HD on channel 538. Effective October 31, 2012, TVA Sports will be added to Cogeco’s 'Franco' and 'Selectif' programming packages.
“As soon as we heard the announcement that TVA Sports was going to be created, we expressed a keen interest, and we're extremely pleased to be able to carry it”, said Ron Perrotta,…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has redesigned its high speed Internet packages in Ontario and Quebec to offer customers more speed and higher data transfer capacity, plus lower rates if they exceed their monthly caps.
Effective immediately, Ontarians may choose from new packages called ‘Express 4’, ‘Express 8’, and ‘Turbo 14’, while in Quebec, the new packages are called ‘Express 3’, ‘Express 7’ and ‘Turbo 14’. They replace Cogeco’s former Lite, Lite Plus and Standard offers, respectively.
Cogeco Internet customers in territories where DOCSIS 3.0 technology has been launched in may also choose a brand new package called ‘Turbo 20’ which offers download speeds…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Data Services (CDS) is increasing its data centre space by almost two football fields to meet the growing demand for managed information technology services and support for cloud computing initiatives.
The company said that through new construction and its recent acquisition of Quiettouch Inc., CDS will have more than 100,000 square feet of data centre space spread across six facilities – one in Vancouver, three in Toronto, one in Barrie, ON and one in Oakville, ON.
The new facilities, which will be designed, built and operated by CDS, will also offer 24/7/365 monitoring, power redundancy, support, biometrics,…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Diffusion-owned CKAC will be rebranded as Radio Circulation 730 starting early Tuesday morning, with programming now dedicated to traffic, road work, and weather in the Greater Montreal area.
In addition, sister station 98.5 FM will become “Montreal’s super station for opinion, news and sports”, and include select sports programming from CKAC such as Montreal Canadiens, Alouettes and Impact game broadcasts.
The radio division of Cogeco Inc. said Friday that the move was made in order to honour the agreement struck in May between Cogeco Diffusion and the Ministère des Transports du Québec on a French-language and an…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has bought MTO Telecom, the largest private telecommunications provider in the province of Quebec. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Cogeco said Wednesday that it plans to integrate the company into its business communications subsidiary Cogeco Data Services (CDS). With over 1500 kilometres of fibre, MTO Telecom covers the island of Montreal and offers Ethernet broadband connectivity services to carrier, enterprise and public sector customers.
“The combination of Cogeco Data Services and MTO Telecom brings together network infrastructure that enables Cogeco Data Services to expand its reach, particularly in Montréal, adding to its already…
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MONTREAL – Montreal’s Metro 14 will launch in high definition this Saturday.
The Channel Zero-owned station also confirmed that it will be launching in HD on Cogeco systems around the Montréal area later this fall. It is currently available on Videotron, Bell TV, Shaw Direct Rogers, and over-the-air in HD.
New to channel’s fall primetime lineup, which debuts September 12, are series The Insider, Hart of Dixie, and The Secret Circle, plus a new morning show that will premier in early October.
www.metro14.ca
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has rolled out its Ultimate 30 and Ultimate 50 high speed Internet packages for consumers in Napanee, ON, as well as its new Business Ultimate 30 and Ultimate 50 packages for businesses.
Powered by DOCSIS 3.0, Cogeco says the packages offer advantages in speed and pricing compared to competitors in its footprint. The Ultimate 30 package offers speeds of up to 30 Mbps for downloads and up to 1.5 Mbps for uploads with a monthly download cap of 125 GB. For the Ultimate 50 package, speeds can reach 50 Mbps for downloads and 1.5 Mbps…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable Inc. says it has completed the acquisition of Quiettouch Inc. that was announced on June 27, 2011. Quiettouch is a 27-year-old leading independent provider of outsourced managed IT and infrastructure services to mid-market and larger enterprises in Canada. A purchase price has not yet been disclosed.
Quiettouch will be integrated into Cogeco Data Services and complement CDS’ data centre, network and voice services offering. Cogeco says that together they will offer a wide array of services and capabilities designed to better serve the needs of the business market, including network infrastructure, managed connectivity and voice…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable added two new French-language channels to its high definition lineup Thursday.
TVA-owned Mlle is a channel designed for Quebec women passionate about style, beauty and wellness, while Astral’s Cinepop airs films from the 1950s through today, uncut and with no commercial breaks.
The SD version of Mlle is available now to all of Cogeco’s digital TV customers in Quebec, and Mlle HD and Cinepop HD will be offered to “most”, the company said.
"Mlle HD and Cinepop HD further enhance the French-language HD line-up our customers in Quebec know and love”, said Ron Perrotta, VP of marketing and…
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MONTREAL – Coegco Inc. has written off its Portuguese cable unit Cabovisao amid a third quarter net loss of more than $56 million.
The company said Thursday that the majority of its weaker than expected results were due to a non-cash impairment loss of $225.9-million for Cabovisao, as Portugal weathers a severe economic decline which has seen it require financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.
Net losses for the quarter ended May 31, 2011 were $56.7 million, compared to net income of $10.7 million for the same period last year. Excluding the Cabovisao write off,…
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