BURLINGTON, ON – Cogeco Connexion is offering a customizable, cloud-based managed Wi-Fi solution designed for small and mid-market businesses.
A complete service that offers integrated equipment, installation, and support, Cogeco Connexion's Managed Wi-Fi solution provides enhanced internet access as well as scalable Wi-Fi capabilities plus a management portal to customize settings (i.e. Wi-Fi access for guests) and get insights on Wi-Fi usage.
The company added that the Wi-Fi solution is professionally designed and tailored to specific customer requirements, installed by experts and monitored remotely to ensure a fast and reliable Wi-Fi experience.
"More than ever, our business customers are asking for enhanced…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Connexion has launched its residential and business gigabit Internet offering in “targeted” Quebec markets.
The up to 1 Gbps service is now available in Trois-Rivières, Drummondville, Saint-Hyacinthe, Rimouski and Saint-Adèle, the company said Thursday. This includes next generation Internet Wi-Fi equipment, as well.
"Today's announcement is further evidence of our unwavering commitment to providing our customers the means to effectively navigate evolving technology as well as to meet their changing needs," said president Ken Smithard, in the news release. "More than ever, our customers are asking for increased Internet capabilities to support their gaming, streaming and browsing needs…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. executive board chairman Louis Audet has been selected as the United Nations Association in Canada’s (UNA-Canada) 2018 Global Citizens Laureate.
Each year, UNA-Canada names a global citizen laureate by selecting a Canadian who shares and invests in ideas, people, and community. Audet received the honour at a dinner held Wednesday in Montreal.
“This year’s Global Citizens Dinner paid special tribute to Mr. Audet’s uniquely Canadian model of success within the global community and recognized him for his dedication as a Canadian corporate leader who continuously gives back through his active involvement with charitable, educational and community organizations,…
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HAMILTON – Community television channel Cable 14 is behind a series of public service announcements designed to promote Hamilton Food Share’s organizations and programs to local residents in need.
Through a campaign called ‘14 Ways To Feed The Hammer’, the PSAs will feature not only how these organizations support individuals over the holidays, but how they ensure that vulnerable citizens have access to food all year round. According to the news release, approximately 10,000 Hamilton households will reach out to the emergency food system for assistance in providing their family with the celebrations that many of us take for…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. has named Marie-Hélène Labrie to the position of senior vice-president of public affairs and communications.
Labrie (pictured) joins Cogeco after ten years at Montreal cleantech firm Enerkem, where she was most recently SVP government affairs and communications. Cogeco’s announcement said that Labrie has more than 20 years of broad experience in government relations, public communications and marketing.
“Marie-Hélène’s extensive knowledge of government relations, marketing and communications as well as her diverse background in both traditional and new media make her an ideal candidate to take the helm of Cogeco’s Public Affairs and Communications team,” said Cogeco president…
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OTTAWA – The Connecting Families program which was announced in June by Navdeep Bains, Minister of Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) at the Telecom Summit, in Toronto was unveiled this week.
The government is not subsidizing ISPs to provide the low-cost Internet service but is investing $13.2 million over five years to refurbish and deliver up to 50,000 computers to eligible families through the Computers for Success Canada program, as well as to develop a secure online portal through which eligible families can sign up for the initiative and access the low-cost Internet service and/or a refurbished computer.
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TORONTO – Length matters.
That's one of the findings of a poll of Canadian TV viewers and the video content they consume which was conducted by Charlton Strategic Research, and unveiled Tuesday at the CTAM Broadcaster’s Forum in Toronto on Tuesday.
Charlton's Gord Hendren told conference attendees that an online survey of 3,168 Canadians over 18 years of age revealed the total time spent watching long-form video content, or over five minutes in length, is up among total Canadian TV viewers.
Millennials, though, are bucking the trend.
Hendren said his poll revealed younger Canadian TV viewers from 18-34 years of age spend less…
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TORONTO – The CRTC’s 2015 decision to move from an aggregated to disaggregated wholesale high-speed access service (HSA) model has ended up placing enormous cost increases on independent ISPs and will further limit competitiveness with a coming cap on Internet speeds, said Matt Stein, president of the Canadian Network Operators Consortium.
“Without changes to the disaggregated regime, our industry will be prevented from keeping prices sane, innovating, and delivering the improved customer relationship we’re known for,” Stein said in a keynote on Tuesday at the 2018 Canadian ISP Summit in Toronto. (He's pictured in a snap borrowed from Distributel's Twitter…
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MONTREAL – While Cogeco Inc. has a financially solid year, the company noted in its 2018 fourth quarter and year end results released Wednesday continued to be impacted by ongoing issues with its customer care management software upgrades.
In the fourth quarter, ended August 31, 2018, revenue for the Canadian and U.S. cable and broadband operator increased by 14.1% over the fourth quarter of 2017 to reach $660.0 million while adjusted earnings before interest taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) increased by 14.8% to hit $288.6 million;
Free cash flow hit $55.3 million, an increase of 6.7%. The increases were driven…
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The TV tax battle
By Phil Lind with Robert Brehl
FEW THINGS GET ME SEETHING like the Canadian television networks’ attempted fee-for-carriage cash grab, the so-called “TV tax.” After everything cable did to increase their TV licences’ value over the years, in 2006 the broadcasters ignited a six-year battle to get us to pay them for carrying their signals. It went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, and they came very close to winning.
Just writing this raises my hackles. Ken Engelhart and Jan Innes would joke that fee-for-carriage was my “Wullerton.” I had no idea what they meant…
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