MY FIRST MEETING WITH SHAW Communications president Peter Bissonnette in the winter of 1998 seems like a lifetime ago. It was in Richmond Hill, then the home base of Shaw’s... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Cogeco Cable's digital customers in Quebec and in Ontario now have access to its Whole Home DVR service that was originally announced back in August. The Whole Home... Continue Reading
WHILE CONCEDING THAT THE various accusations and complaints levelled against it over the past weeks and months show a high level of “competitive and financial tension” evident in the Canadian... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Some 55 years and 40 acquisitions later, Cogeco’s growth from $20 million to $1.5 billion in projected annual revenues stems from focusing on the future, while providing customers the... Continue Reading
GRANTING BELL THE RIGHT to buy Astral Media will make an already big company that acts badly, enormous, add incentive for it act even worse, which in the end will... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – With its traditional business of residential television, Internet and phone in Canada maturing, Cogeco Cable CEO Louis Audet says the United States will be one of the company’s... Continue Reading
I DON’T RECALL THIS question being clearly asked last week of the company executives who would block Bell Canada’s purchase of Astral Media: Why do you fear Bell would act... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – An American consortium of cable companies which have banded together to let their customers roam freely on each others’ Wi-Fi networks may soon gain a Canadian partner. Earlier... Continue Reading
TORONTO - North American wireless carriers reported strong Q2 margins, with combined wireless EBITDA service margins for Rogers, Telus, Bell, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, LEAP and MetroPCS up 342 basis points... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Astral’s re-branded classic movie channels, The Movie Network Encore and The Movie Network Encore 2, launch today across Eastern Canada. Formerly known as Mpix and MorePix, the re-branded... Continue Reading
