MONTREAL – Cogeco Connexion launched Gigabit Internet service to customers in Oakville and Burlington, Ontario on Wednesday.
UltraFibre 1Gig service will roll out in successive phases with deployment in Quebec slated for the spring of 2017. According to the company’s website, pricing starts at $148.95 per month for residential customers and $179.95 per month for business customers.
Cogeco Connexion said it is launching this service to prepare for the ultra-connected homes and businesses of the future, utilizing its hybrid network consisting of coaxial cable (HFC) and 11,000 km of linear fibre running from Windsor, Ontario to Gaspé in Québec.
“With online entertainment…
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OTTAWA – Canadians continued to cut the TV cord in record (if still pretty small) numbers since launch of a CRTC-mandated skinny basic TV package on March 1st.
In the two fiscal quarters since phase one of the Commission’s new consumer choice policy came into effect (which mandated a $25 skinny basic package of over-the-air stations and must-carry channels and the launch of smaller, theme packs of channels), Canada’s publicly traded TV service providers combined lost approximately 98,500 TV subscribers, according to new research and analysis from Ottawa-based research and consulting firm Boon Dog Professional Services.
That’s a loss of 11,500…
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TORONTO – Food lovers may gorge on Bell Media’s Gusto over the holiday season thanks to a national free preview of the food and lifestyle channel.
The exclusive home to all-new Jamie Oliver programming in Canada, programming also features cooking series from lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, including the new Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party where she cooks and entertains alongside her unlikely friend and King of Kush, Snoop Dogg. Gusto’s lineup also includes superstar British chef Lorraine Pascale in her new series Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh And Easy Food, the perfectly paired exclusive series The Wine Show, plus hours of original Canadian programming,…
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GATINEAU – Differential pricing can benefit a broad range of players in the communications market, Telus told the CRTC on the fourth day of its DPP hearing, but just don’t let the vertically integrated (VI) entities use their “unnatural incentives” to give themselves an advantage.
“Since differential pricing practices increase the size of the market, they allow both carriers and content providers to spread these fixed costs over a larger number of consumers. This process has produced, and should continue to produce, newer and better services at stable or falling prices throughout the Internet ecosystem,” said Dr. Jeffrey Eisenach, managing…
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MONTREAL – For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016, revenue at Cogeco Inc. increased by $18 million, or 3.2%, to reach $572 million driven by growth in the communications segment mainly through the improvement of its American broadband services operations, the company said in a press release announcing its Q4 and fiscal 2016 year-end results.
Adjusted EBITDA increased by 5.6% to reach $258.3 million compared to the same period of fiscal 2015 mainly as a result of the improvement in the Communications segment and profit for the period amounted to $80.7 million, compared to profit for the period of…
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GATINEAU – Smaller broadcasters warned the CRTC on Wednesday that it must guard against differential pricing practices because they could have a significant negative impact on their content.
The Independent Broadcast Group told the Commission Wednesday morning it has to consider potential abuses from media companies which own both content and ISPs.
Brad Danks, CEO at OUTtv, noted in his opening remarks to the IBG’s appearance in the DPP hearing that it’s pretty clear that vertically integrated (VI) media companies are able to prefer their own content in ISP distribution. In addition, once the VI’s affiliated broadcast distribution arm gets ISP…
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MONTREAL – There may yet be hope that a group of Montreal-based entrepreneurs will launch a pair of news-talk AM radio stations in Montreal almost five years after the first was approved for a licence by the CRTC. Cartt.ca covered this back in July, saying then a launch looked unlikely.
Nicolas Tétrault, one of the partners in 7954689 Canada Inc. (known as TTP Media), posted (and then deleted) a video to YouTube last week announcing that the company has acquired dormant transmission equipment on the Kahnawake native reserve south of Montreal from Cogeco Media, and that…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Peer 1 is offering cloud connect for ExpressRoute, a secure and high performance connectivity solution for Canadian Microsoft Cloud customers.
As an Azure ExpressRoute partner, Cogeco Peer 1 said that it is now able to deliver a dedicated, secure, high performance connection to Azure, Office 365, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, allowing businesses to leverage all the benefits of a public cloud without the risks associated with typical internet connections.
"Cogeco Peer 1 cloud connect for ExpressRoute enables organizations to bypass the intrinsic security, reliability, and performance risks associated with the internet via secure, dedicated, low latency connectivity to…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC took matters in to its own hands Thursday, throwing out the wholesale high-speed access rates proposed by the country’s large cable and telephone companies in favour of its own.
In its decision, the Commission said that the proposed rates from incumbent carriers “were not just and reasonable” and that they were therefore revised downwards. It also expressed “significant concern” that that some of the companies have not conducted their cost studies in accordance with well-established costing principles and methodologies, and disregarded the CRTC provided Regulatory Economic Studies Manuals .
“Competitors that provide retail Internet services to Canadians using…
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TORONTO – Former Cogeco exec Antonio (Tony) Ciciretto as has been named president and CEO of TeraGo Inc. effective immediately, replacing Stewart Lyons.
Most recently president and CEO of Cogeco Peer 1 (formerly known as Cogeco Data Services), Ciciretto (pictured) also co-founded and was president of private investment firm TVN Group, plus held senior roles at Rogers Business Solutions and Bell Canada.
In addition to his role president and CEO, Ciciretto will also continue to serve as a member of TeraGo's Board of Directors.
"We are thrilled with the appointment of Mr. Ciciretto as the next TeraGo President and CEO," said Jim Nikopoulos, chair…
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