Cogeco Inc. announced Monday that Cogeco Connexion is acquiring an internet, telephone and television service provider serving the Niagara Region. Niagara Regional...
Cogeco Inc. does not plan to roll out its Canadian MVNO operations anytime soon, president and CEO Philippe Jetté told analysts in a Thursday fourth quarter earnings call. According to the CEO, the company will be able to provide an update on its mobile progress in both...
Talks between Cogeco Communications Inc. and incumbents for access to MVNO services are still ongoing,...
It remains unclear if Cogeco Inc. will debut an MVNO offering in its Canadian cable footprint by the end...
Cogeco Communications Inc. plans to aggressively enter the mobile virtual...
Cogeco Inc. announced it is acquiring independent internet service provider (ISP) Oxio. In a Tuesday...
While Cogeco Inc. says it currently sees "less risk and greater clarity" with regards to the CRTC's mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) framework, the company is still...
While Cogeco Inc. is pleased to finally see the terms and conditions of the MVNO framework from the CRTC,...
Monday the CRTC granted approval of a change in speeds for third party...
Cogeco Inc. president and CEO Philippe Jetté said...
Cogeco Inc. is raising concern with the CRTC that...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is the only...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
The CRTC approved two separate applications by Cogeco Inc. and Arsenal Media which would essentially see...
Cogeco Inc. has two different labour disputes brewing, according to the union representing two different...
Cogeco Inc.'s ability to participate in the upcoming 3800 MHz auction will depend on what terms and conditions the CRTC eventually approves for negotiations between incumbents...
The Superior Court of Quebec denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s...
The addition of Shaw Communications Inc.'s Freedom Mobile brand, should Shaw be forced to sell it off by...
The advent of facilities-based mobile virtual...
Of Canada’s big three telecom companies, Rogers Communications Inc. is...
The CRTC is permitting Cogeco Connexion Inc. to provide telephony services to Lambton, Que. In a Nov. 15 letter addressed to the incumbent in the territory, ...
MISSISSAUGA — Telus Corp.’s chief technology officer said that the...
Cogeco Inc.’s CEO said it is a multi-step process it has to follow before...
Two telecom companies can start work on their Broadband Fund projects now...
A dispute over Cogeco Inc. dropping children’s television content creator...
Cogeco Inc. cable subsidiary Cogeco Connexion has signed on Fido Mobile VP Nancy Audette as its own vice...
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group...
Cogeco Inc. saw a rise in revenue and profit this spring and though CEO...
Cogeco Communications Inc. is expanding south of the border after it announced its American subsidiary...
Industry analysts are calling Thursday's decision to mandate access to incumbent wireless networks for a limited number of regional wireless competitors a "moderate net negative" for incumbent telecom companies. In a note published late Thursday, Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige wrote that effectively for the incumbents, it could have been worse. Incumbents "should be comforted," he wrote, by two aspects of the decision. First, the seven year sunset on the mandated access,...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
After surviving a hostile takeover bid by Rogers Communications Inc. in...
Cogeco Inc. breached the CRTC’s standstill rule by announcing its intention to drop Wildbrain’s family programming while in commercial negotiations about their ongoing carriage, Wildbrain claims....
Cogeco Inc. reported $646.4 million in revenue in its first quarter, up 4.5 per cent from a year earlier. Profit, meanwhile, was up 27.8 per cent to $120.5 million in the three months ending Nov. 30. The company said in its...
Cogeco Inc. Monday announced the appointment of John Hargrave as its vice-president of products. "I am very excited that John is joining the Cogeco family. He will be an undeniable asset to our growth strategy, especially in terms of product innovation," president of Cogeco Connexion Frédéric Perron said in a Monday release. "With his experience, leadership and ability to take action quickly, I am convinced that John will rapidly master our business objectives and support Cogeco Connexion's vision." Before joining Cogeco, Hargrave was responsible for product management, software...
President of Cogeco Inc.'s media division Michel Lorrain has stepped down from the position, the company...
The number of complaints from Canadians about their telecom services fell 19 per cent last year, the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) said in its annual report Monday. It’s the first time...
Paul Beaudry is to become the new vice-president for regulatory affairs at Cogeco Inc., taking over from Nathalie Dorval. Beaudry announced the news on Twitter Thursday morning. “It’s an exciting time to be in the...
Cogeco Inc. announced its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, increasing...
Cogeco Inc. is buying Quebec cableco DERYtelecom for $405 million, the company announced Wednesday. The acquisition will see Cogeco add around 100,000 customers in various regions of the province, including Estrie,...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Altice USA Inc. upped their offer in a joint takeover bid of Cogeco Inc. from $10.3 billion to $11 billion over weekend, a bid that was rejected by the controlling shareholder of the company, the...
In a Wednesday afternoon press release, the board of directors for Cogeco Inc. accused the CEOs of both...
As Cogeco Inc.’s CFO speculated Tuesday that a bid for his company’s...
Louis Audet, former CEO of Cogeco Inc. and current executive chairman of the company, says when the company turned down an acquisition offer last week, its denial was final. The Audet family, which is the controlling shareholder of Cogeco, said no last week to a $10.3...
Rogers Communications Inc. says if its proposed acquisition of Cogeco Inc.’s Canadian division went through, it wouldn’t move the headquarters, management team or operations of Cogeco’s media...
The controlling shareholder of Cogeco Inc. — the Audet family — has...
Cogeco Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire telecommunications service provider iTéract Inc., the...
The telecommunications sector will have an "irrelevant" first quarter and will "write off" the second...
Canada’s publicly-traded wireless service providers added just under 1.29 million wireless subscribers in 2019, a year many executives described as one of the most intensely competitive in recent memory. The 1,289,347 subscribers added across Telus Corp., Quebecor...
Quebecor Inc. and Cogeco Inc. have both announced staff layoffs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Quebecor announced on Friday morning it would lay off 10 per cent of its workforce, which the company said amounted to about 1000...
Cogeco Inc. chief financial officer Patrice Ouimet has told an investor...
GATINEAU, Que. — How threatening the prospect of mandated MVNO access is...
There’s no firm timeframe for when Cogeco Inc. will roll out its new IPTV service, despite the cableco previously telling investors it would become available in 2019. Cogeco’s CEO Phillipe...
Ken Smithard, the president of Cogeco Inc.’s Canadian telecom division, is leaving the company after 20...
Despite improvements in customer service that have lowered customer...
The country’s largest TV service providers are appealing an increase in the over-the-air distant signal...
Cogeco Inc. is looking forward to the upcoming spectrum auctions in 2020, especially since Innovation, Science, and Economic Development put in place new tier 5 spectrum licensing rules this past summer. The new licenses,...
Cogeco Inc. said Monday that the new wholesale broadband rates set by the CRTC will cost the company $25 million in retroactive payments, while Rogers Communications Inc. said it "expects to record a charge of approximately $140 million in the current quarter to account for the retroactive impact of the lower rates." Rogers said the "final rates do not recognize the true cost of building and expanding Canada’s world-class broadband networks and will certainly impact Rogers future network...
The country’s biggest telecoms are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review a decision by a lower...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...
The CRTC has asked several telecoms to explain how their throttling of wireless speeds once customers exceed their data allotments doesn’t violate the commission’s regulatory policy on internet...
The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...
Cogeco Inc. said it has hired Marie Ginette Lepage as its new vice-president of wireless solutions and innovation, a newly-created position in which she will take on the responsibility for Cogeco’s wireless service strategy. Lepage is leaving her role at Stingray Group...
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom, the country’s major fourth wireless player, says it is most susceptible to harm if the CRTC decides to mandate MVNO access to incumbent facilities, and that...
Telus Corp. is going to court over the CRTC’s decision last month to grant smaller internet providers a...
Complaints about TV service to the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS)...
All Canadians whose earnings fall below the government’s low-income measure should have access to internet service for $10, an advocacy group is telling the panel reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts. ACORN Canada also...
Canada’s publicly traded telecom companies added more than one million...
Cogeco Communications Inc. says it’s inked a deal to sell its Cogeco Peer 1 cloud services business for $720 million. The data centre business is being sold to affiliates of the Los Angeles-based investment firm Digital...
Cogeco Inc. is raising caution about the negative impact the government's...
Cushioned between a subscriber base that on average doesn’t take gigabit download speeds and a future secure with the latitude to expand to at least 10 gigabit speeds, Cogeco Inc. executives said on Friday that they are comfortable delivering whatever speeds the market...
The CRTC has sided with a small telecom that was reselling wholesale...
Cogeco Inc. isn’t among the list of participants in the 600 MHz auction, released by Innovation Canada...
Just as it did in Ontario, Cogeco Inc. is now expanding its gigabit...
A new online radio service from Quebecor Inc. indicates the company is...
Five months after ushering the internet into the quality of service regime, the CRTC said Friday it is directing cable incumbents to provide status of service reports to customers of wholesale clients within a reasonable time. In agreeing with a proposal by the incumbent group -- consisting Cogeco Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron -- the regulator said it will require the group, at a minimum, to inform customers of smaller providers...
The CRTC should focus its efforts on taking action against telecoms that have been directly accused of unethical sales practices instead of applying blanket rules on the entire industry, smaller...
Cogeco Inc. is going with MediaFirst for its first IPTV platform, a move...
The CRTC will question telecoms about their sales practices at an October hearing in Gatineau, Que., the regulator said Monday as it launched a consultation. The proceeding is in response to an order by the federal government...
Cogeco Inc.'s renewed interest in entering the wireless market is partly...
Amir Bigloo, who has a history of successful spectrum purchases as CEO of...
In a pair of studies measuring home internet service this week, BCE Inc. was positioned at the two ends of the spectrum, topping out the list of fastest connections in Canada, but falling to near the...
An announcement Thursday that Cogeco Inc. has bought more spectrum makes it clear the company is “exploring a viable economic model for a wireless service,” Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda...
Cogeco Inc. has bought $8 million worth of the 2500 MHz paired spectrum band from Kian Telecom Inc.,...
MONTREAL — Despite a generational change at the helm of Cogeco Inc., the company is promising to stick to its existing vision and strategy, outgoing CEO Louis Audet and...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments after correcting the data it used to determine wholesale rates during the regulator’s look at mandatory carriage renewals, according to a Friday letter. ...
Despite qualifying this week for an auction of wireless spectrum, the head...
Canada’s publicly-traded telecoms lost fewer TV subscribers in 2017 than...
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...
The sale of non-core assets Rogers Communications Inc. said it is considering could be worth $4 billion to the company after taxes, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst...
More customers in Toronto are adopting internet speeds over 300 Mbps, and the trend looks to be picking up pace as competition heats up in that market, according to Barclays Capital. With...
In its quarterly results released on Friday, Cogeco Inc. reported overall revenues for the three-month...
BCE Inc.’s top man George Cope said the company likes new CRTC head Ian Scott’s approach to balancing consumer and business interests....
Two of Canada’s largest telecom companies aren’t overly enthusiastic...
The CRTC's goal of fuelling wireline competition by jumpstarting the...
The CRTC kickstarted the industry’s move to a disaggregated wholesale...
The Quebec Superior Court has ruled that aspects of municipal access agreements between telecom providers and Gatineau, Que., are invalid because they impose on Parliament’s jurisdiction over...
Cogeco Inc. can look to cable in the United States to see sustained growth compared to a harsher cable market in Canada, according to Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang. “Relative to...
Cogeco Inc. reported stronger revenues and profits for its fiscal third quarter, the first earnings report since its acquisition of Harron Communications LP’s MetroCast assets in the United States earlier this week. For the three months ended May 31, Cogeco saw...