MONTREAL – With just days to go before Bell Let's Talk Day on January 27, Bell issued a public thank you to the Canadian organizations supporting the initiative and promoting its messages around mental health.
"A huge thank you to all the individuals and organizations joining the Bell Let's Talk team to help get everyone talking about mental health. What better way to fight the stigma than having Canada's finest brands actively promoting the cause?" said Clara Hughes, national spokesperson for Bell Let's Talk, in the news release. "When you send your own messages on Bell Let's Talk Day, you not only let…
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BRAMPTON, ON – The SCTE Ontario Chapter has named Cogeco’s Arni Lundale to its Board of Directors for 2016.
Lundale will serve a one year term as director of membership meetings and presentations/certification following the resignation of Clearcable’s Joe Caruso who is leaving his position as director of social media.
The Ontario Chapter of SCTE has grown to over 900 members since its inception in mid-2003 and is the largest chapter membership in North America.
www.scte-ontario.com
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MONTREAL – Cogeco and subsidiary Cogeco Cable held their annual general meetings in Montreal on Wednesday, preceded by a conference call with analysts and a meeting with journalists. Here’s what we heard.
Wireless
“It’s been 10 years that you’ve asked me that question,” Cogeco CEO Louis Audet told journalists, and he had it again in the investor conference call. But the logic hasn’t changed, even as Shaw’s acquisition of Wind Mobile makes Cogeco the largest Canadian cable or telecom provider without a wireless service.
“Our perception since the beginning is that if we enter this industry it has…
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MONTREAL – Growth in Cogceo Inc.’s cable and enterprise data services segment and U.S. cable services operations helped to buoy its first quarter revenues and profits.
The Montreal-based company reported revenue of $582.9 million for the period ended November 30, 2015, up 8.3% from $538.4 million in the same period last year, driven by growth in its Cable and Enterprise data services segment mainly through improvements at its American cable services operations, favorable foreign exchange rates, and increases in its radio and out-of-home advertising segments.
A 2.2% rise in profits to $66.8 million, of which $25.2 million is attributable to owners of the…
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LAS VEGAS – “Cable companies find it hard to accept that people don’t just want to watch TV in the living room anymore,” said Jay Mehr, EVP and COO of Shaw Communications as it announced the launch of its FreeRange app Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show.
The app makes content instantly available to subscribers no matter where they are and Mehr (pictured) told a gathering of industry partners and press that the cable company had partnered with Comcast and Cisco to leverage Comcast's X1 platform to provide a truly disruptive mobile experience by providing live…
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OTTAWA – Independent ISPs and consumer groups are telling the federal government not to buy Bell Canada’s assertions that investments in next-generation fibre networks will come to a standstill if the CRTC’s wholesale fibre access decision is allowed to stand.
A day after the Justin Trudeau Liberals swept into power in Ottawa on October 19, Bell filed appeal with the Governor-in-Council seeking a Cabinet order overturning Telecom Regulatory Policy 2015-326. The company claims the decision favours “resale over investment” which will lead to less capital for fibre to the home…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco’s radio subsidiary Cogeco Diffusion Inc. has sold off Métromédia CMR Plus Inc. (Cogeco Métromédia) almost four years to the date that it first acquired the transit advertising company.
The company said Tuesday that Cogeco Métromédia has been sold to Bell Media Inc., the owner of Astral Out of Home. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Cogeco Métromédia is an out-of-home advertising company specializing in the public transit sector.
"Our experience with Cogeco Métromédia has been both positive and profitable," said president and CEO Louis Audet, in the news release. "We have been in the media industry since Cogeco's…
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BRAMPTON – Cogeco Cable’s Ron Huinink has been elected president of SCTE Ontario Chapter board for 2015.
He joins Rogers Cable’s John Triassi and Andrew Laframboise and Telonix’s Scott McPhail who were also elected to the SCTE Ontario Board for a period of two years (2016 and 2017). They join current board members Mario Massi, Ivan Novello, Chris Skarica and Joe Caruso.
The organization said that nine candidates put their names forward and that voter turnout was strong.
The Ontario Chapter of SCTE has grown to over 900 members since its inception in mid-2003 and is the largest chapter membership in North America.
www.scte-ontario.com
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TORONTO – Telus will join the increasing number of data centre providers in Canada offering hybrid cloud services that connect applications in corporate-owned or hosted private clouds or infrastructure, to public clouds.
The Vancouver-based telecommunications company said last week the new hybrid cloud service – to launch early next year – will allow organizations to shift workloads including virtual machines, operating systems, data, and applications between their private clouds (usually applications that need high security) and public clouds (applications that are under development or are less mission-critical).
"It's going to provide the ability to move workloads between these environments…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable Canada has named Daniel Boisvert as VP marketing and innovation, and Antoine Shiu as VP business solutions sales.
Boisvert (right) has more than 25 years of experience with large corporations in the telecommunications, media and new technologies fields, most recently as president of Strategika International. He has also been president and CEO of Sympatico-Lycos (Bell Canada), and held strategic positions with BCE, Bell ActiMedia and Teleglobe.
In his new role, Boisvert will provide strategic leadership to roll out flexible products and services that are on the leading edge of technology, reads the announcement. He will also…
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