Cable / Telecom News

UPDATE: Rogers wants to overbuild Cogeco, Aurora

TORONTO - If it can't buy 'em, it looks like Rogers might overbuild 'em. Rogers Cable has applied to the CRTC to extend its cable territories in Ontario to include a chunk of Cogeco Cable’s Ontario wheelhouse: Oakville, Burlington, Milton and Halton Hills, as well as into tiny Aurora Cable’s market in Aurora, just north of Toronto. A move like this may signal a stark departure from the historically collegial cable industry where each company kept to its own territory and expanded by purchasing other cable companies. (Aurora and Cogeco are both known not to be for sale, however.) In fact,...