Cogeco hires new HR officer

telecom | 01/25/2022 5:05 pm EST

Cogeco Communications Inc. has appointed a new senior vice-president and chief human resources officer, the company was announced Tuesday in a press release. Linda Gillespie  will begin her duties at the Montreal head office effective April 4, 2022. The Queen's University alumna spent the previous seven years at Weston Foods, where she was senior vice-president of human resources and communications. She has prior experience at Dupont and at Nortel....

Global LTE connections doubled last year: industry group

telecom | 03/12/2015 3:40 pm EDT

The number of LTE connections worldwide reached nearly half a billion last year, according to wireless industry association 4G Americas. The group said in a Thursday release that data gathered by Ovum Ltd. showed that there were 498 million global LTE connections at the end of 2014, of which about one-third, 164 million, were in Canada and the United States. That’s more than double the 206 million worldwide LTE connections at the end of 2013, for a growth rate of 141 per cent. North America has the highest LTE penetration, the group said, at 40 per cent of all mobile connections,...