Friday the CRTC denied an application by several stakeholders for an expedited decision to block Canada's Big Three telecoms from aggregated wholesale access to...
A wealth of intervenors have told the CRTC that the large established telecoms should not be allowed to have access to aggregated wholesale high-speed access over fibre-to-the-premises (AWHSA-FTTP) facilities.
A diverse group of stakeholders filed their remarks this...
Cogeco Inc. reported strong internet subscriber growth for the second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, it...
Major broadcasters are opposed to Accessible Media Inc.’s (AMI) request...
The CRTC has ordered Cogeco Inc. to maintain TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...
Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Communications Inc. announced Monday morning that president and CEO Philippe Jetté is retiring immediately from the companies and will be replaced by Frédéric Perron. Perron was most recently president of...
Neighbourhood Connect (NHC), operating under 2621159 Ontario Inc. DBA Neighbourhood Connect, has lodged an application with the CRTC seeking relief in accessing multi-dwelling...
Two large incumbent telecoms told the CRTC that broadband resellers are not...
Cogeco Inc. is adamantly defending its right to upgrade infrastructure for...
Cogeco Inc. announced Monday that Cogeco Connexion is acquiring an...
Rogers Communications Inc. has become Canada’s most complained-about service provider, according to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services’ (CCTS) annual report released on...
Revenue and profits declined at Cogeco Inc. as the Quebec firm released...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. lodged a formal Part 1 complaint with the CRTC against Cogeco Inc., to address...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to...
The CRTC has told several telecommunications providers it will not be able...
Rogers Communications Inc. has divested itself of all of its shares in Cogeco Inc. and its subsidiary Cogeco Communications Inc. The deal was announced Monday evening after the markets closed. The buyer is the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ).
The...
Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution...
UPDATED: CTS regulatory blockbuster react to CRTC FTTP decision...
Interventions coming in from the CRTC show...
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...
As the CRTC’s review of its broadband fund continues, many telcos and other stakeholders are struggling to agree on how it can best be improved. In a collection of replies...
Cogeco Inc. announced Valéry Zamuner will be taking over as senior vice-president and chief corporate affairs and legal officer, effective this coming Monday.
“Zamuner is a seasoned executive with outstanding experience in...
Cogeco Inc. is appointing Tim Dinesen, experienced tech executive and telecommunications consultant, as its senior vice president and CTO.
According to the company’s Thursday release, he will be taking up the new position at...
The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...
Cogeco Inc. had its fibre network in North Bay Ont, attacked by vandals Friday. The service outage affected only a small number of customers and was restored by day’s end, the telecom reports.
A similar outage occurred last...
Major telecommunications service providers were...
Other governments and private sector companies are joining in the boycott of Meta Platforms Inc. after it announced plans to block Canadian news from Facebook and Instagram. Meta’s move came in...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...
It remains unclear if Cogeco Inc. will debut an MVNO offering in its Canadian cable footprint by the end...
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair Vicky Eatrides' January promise to reassess the wholesale broadband market, and launched a notice of consultation that will...
Shaw Communications Inc. has argued that the type of off-tariff-agreement...
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...
Cogeco Inc. announced it is acquiring independent internet service provider (ISP) Oxio.
In a Tuesday...
Telus Corp. and Cogeco Inc. are rowing in behind...
In a Monday decision, the CRTC approved five new disaggregated Ethernet passive optical network (EPON)/fibre to the home (FTTH) speed tiers for Cogeco Inc. In the same decision, the commission denied Cogeco’s destandardization of its 6 Megabits per second (Mbps) and 40...
The Rouyn-Noranda market cannot support another...
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe...
Cogeco Inc. president and CEO Philippe Jetté said...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has filed an intervention in...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Cogeco Inc. are among competitors protesting proposed changes to the...
A consortium of regional wireless competitors have filed an application...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Cogeco Inc. is raising concern with the CRTC that...
Cogeco Inc. is preparing its entry into Canada’s mobile wireless market but has no definitive timeframe, as it is still contingent on the approval by the CRTC for the terms and conditions for the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service and the negotiation of reasonable rates with the incumbents.
CEO Philippe Jetté told analysts in a Thursday morning quarterly...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is the only...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
The federal government is providing low-income families and seniors with...
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 sets of Cogeco employees.
According to a Monday release from the Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique, both the workers for Cogeco Media's 106.9 FM in...
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...
The Superior Court of Quebec denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s...
The CRTC Wednesday approved a request from BCE...
Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...
Of Canada’s big three telecom companies, Rogers Communications Inc. is...
On the third day of CRTC hearings into the proposed takeover of Shaw...
The telecoms companies that supported Innovation,...
The CRTC is permitting Cogeco Connexion Inc. to provide telephony services...
MISSISSAUGA - Even at the earliest stages of the CRTC’s new mobile virtual network operator regime, incumbents are already obstructing the goals of the decision, according to the CEO of one of the companies tipped to be the biggest beneficiary of the new regime. ...
Cogeco Inc.’s CEO said it is a multi-step process it has to follow before...
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to delay a hearing...
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
Two telecom companies can start work on their Broadband Fund projects now that the commission has approved their plans.
In March the CRTC dolled out $57.7 million of its...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications...
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...
The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...
A dispute over Cogeco Inc. dropping children’s television content creator...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
Cogeco Inc. cable subsidiary Cogeco Connexion has signed on Fido Mobile VP Nancy Audette as its own vice...
Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...
Cogeco Inc. saw a rise in revenue and profit this spring and though CEO...
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever site-blocking order against an anonymous so-called pirate IPTV service, the same trio of rights...
Cogeco Inc. is getting more than $40 million in funding for high-speed internet projects in Quebec. ...
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...
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to...
On the opening day Monday of hearings into Roger's proposed acquisition of...
The CRTC is handing out $57.7 million through its Broadband Fund for the construction of thousands of kilometres of network transport infrastructure. The commission announced Friday that seven projects will be getting funding for almost 1,400 kilometres of fibre transport network in northern Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, targeting 15 rural and remote communities, accounting for some 6,500 households. Most of the money goes to Kativik Regional Government in Quebec --...
Cogeco Inc. has responded to a Part 1 from television company Wildbrain,...
The federal government’s proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for WiFi use has received broad support in an Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada consultation. Every...
As the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an incumbent challenge to an...
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. has officially launched its IPTV service, dubbed Epico. Epico, which runs on the MediaFirst platform, is now available to the “majority of Cogeco customers in the territories served by the company,” according to a press release Monday. “This new service will allow customers...
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...
President of Cogeco Inc.'s media division Michel Lorrain has stepped down from the position, the company...
A pair of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada proposals on changes to midband spectrum allocation that would affect fixed wireless service has drawn a mixed response from telecoms....
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 since 2015-2016 that the number of complaints went down year-over-year, the report said. It followed the CCTS mid-year report, which also saw declines. The annual report noted there were 35 per cent fewer complaints regarding BCE Inc.’s services from the previous year and 69 per cent fewer complaints regarding Cogeco Inc. “We are hopeful that service providers...
On the heels of the incumbent appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision...
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...
A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...
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, Lanaudière, Montérégie and the Laurentians. National Bank analyst Adam Shine wrote Wednesday in a research note that while DERYtelecom is “one of the largest cable operators in the province, it's a distant third to Vidéotron and Cogeco.” Its footprint is also more rural, Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige noted, meaning it has a higher proportion...
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...
As Cogeco Inc.’s CFO speculated Tuesday that a bid for his company’s...
In almost all cases, Canadian internet consumers are receiving service at...
Louis Audet, former CEO of Cogeco Inc. and current executive chairman of...
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...
In a much-watched appeal of Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order, three separate opponents of the order have filed two interventions asking the Federal Court of Appeal to strike down the order. In the first of the...
In its first quarterly report to include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cogeco Inc.’s radio revenues fell by one-third, though its overall revenue beat analyst expectations. In the results...
Five years after it announced a move to a new system for wholesale internet access, the CRTC is consulting on how it should change that regime.
It said in a Thursday notice of consultation it “does not have confirmation that there has been any implementation of the...