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Cogeco revenue falls in Q2, despite strong Canadian numbers

| 04/10/2026 3:19 pm EDT

Cogeco continues push towards wireless service in Canada with two network access deals

Cogeco Communications Inc. reported a drop in revenues over the most recent quarter, largely owing to a falling subscriber base in the U.S. Year-over-year revenue fell by 5.3 per cent to $693.6 million, despite what the company called “growth in the Canadian...

TekSavvy calls on CRTC in second Cogeco copper removal dispute

| 03/06/2026 5:30 am EST

Lead-lined copper wiring too small part of network to be concern, telecoms say

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the CRTC to block Cogeco Inc. from ending its third-party internet access (TPIA) services in some parts of several Ontario cities.  If that gives a sense of déjà vu, it is because this is the second time the two companies have had a...

Canada’s largest unions form alliance to protect telecom jobs

| 02/10/2026 4:57 pm EST

Canada’s largest unions form alliance to protect telecom jobs

Three of Canada’s largest unions are joining forces to create a new...

Cogeco’s American operations boost bottom line in Q1 results

| 01/15/2026 7:04 pm EST

Cogeco continues push towards wireless service in Canada with two network access deals

The CEO of Cogeco Communications Inc. is excited by the returns from...

Cogeco’s revenue, profits decline but company expecting better days as MVNO grows

| 10/30/2025 7:36 pm EDT

Cogeco continues push towards wireless service in Canada with two network access deals

Revenues and profits fell at Cogeco Inc. during its fourth quarter this year, but the company is hopeful that its recently announced telecom expansion will help numbers for...

Beanfield looks to expand organically rather than through acquisitions, CEO says

| 10/28/2025 4:36 pm EDT

Beanfield looks to expand organically rather than through acquisitions, CEO says

Beanfield Technologies Inc. is bullish on the Canadian telecom market...

UPDATED: CRTC disallows Bell-Cogeco appeal of Quebecor radio deal

| 10/24/2025 2:46 pm EDT

UPDATED: CRTC disallows Bell-Cogeco appeal of Quebecor radio deal

The CRTC has ruled against BCE Inc. and Cogeco Inc. in a Part 1 application...

Bell, Cogeco not worried about FCC reduction in service

Internet and Governance | 10/06/2025 4:43 pm EDT

Bell, Cogeco not worried about FCC reduction in service

The shutdown of the American government has forced the Federal...

Cogeco announces soft launch of wireless service as Q3 numbers released

Internet and Governance | 07/16/2025 4:50 pm EDT

Cogeco announces soft launch of wireless service as Q3 numbers released

As it released the figures for its third quarter of fiscal year 2025,...

Telecoms want federal cabinet to overturn CRTC decision on high-speed access

telecom | 06/20/2025 6:23 pm EDT

Federal and territorial governments invest in NWT fibre link

Most Canadian telecom players want the federal government to step in to...

ITPA says it’s in favour of broadband labels for larger players at CRTC hearing

telecom | 06/12/2025 10:58 pm EDT

ITPA says it's in favour of broadband labels for larger players at CRTC hearing

A consortium of small internet service providers...

New internet service labels not needed, Cogeco tells CRTC panel

telecom | 06/10/2025 6:24 pm EDT

New internet service labels not needed, Cogeco tells CRTC panel

American experiences with internet labelling regulations demonstrate that...

Telus CFO says execs meeting with potential tower infrastructure stakeholders in next couple weeks

telecom | 05/14/2025 5:07 pm EDT

Telus logo The Wire Report

Telus Corp. CFO Doug French said Wednesday, May 14 that he is meeting with a short list of parties interested in buying a minority stake in the telecom’s wireless tower...

Court orders Copyright Board to issue new distant signal tariff following dispute

telecom | 05/09/2025 5:45 pm EDT

Court orders Copyright Board to issue new distant signal tariff following dispute

The Copyright Board of Canada has been ordered by the Federal Court of...

Cogeco Communications reports drops in Canadian profit, revenue for Q2 2025

telecom | 04/10/2025 5:39 pm EDT

Cogeco Communications reports drops in Canadian profit, revenue for Q2 2025

Cogeco Communications’ profit for the second quarter of 2025 dropped by...

CRTC will not change temporary wholesale decision; final decision still on the table

Internet and Governance | 02/03/2025 6:53 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The CRTC has decided not to change its temporary decision on the wholesale...

Billing issues, wireless service complaints spike in CCTS annual report

Internet and Governance | 01/15/2025 9:34 am EST

Wireless Code, home Internet, helping with data overage fees: Research

The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Services says the number of complaints it received about telecom and TV providers ahead of its latest annual report spiked...

Cogeco maintains it will launch Canadian wireless service in coming months

Internet and Governance | 01/14/2025 4:48 pm EST

Telecoms added over 1.4 million new wireless subs in 2018

Cogeco Communications Inc. is maintaining its expectation that it will...

Rogers, Cogeco, Eastlink ask CRTC to block Big Three from wholesale access

Internet and Governance | 11/14/2024 7:58 pm EST

CRTC logo graphic The Wire Report

Multiple telecom companies -- including Rogers, Cogeco, Eastlink, and...

CRTC looking at ‘inflexible’ international roaming fees, rates in Canada

Internet and Governance | 10/07/2024 4:51 pm EDT

CRTC logo graphic The Wire Report

The CRTC is making moves to lower roaming rates, issuing two separate calls...

Cogeco appoints Mike Henry as chief commercial officer

telecom | 09/03/2024 3:07 pm EDT

A photo of Cogeco chief commerical officer Mike Henry.

Cogeco Inc. has appointed Mike Henry as its chief commercial officer, the...

Effects of mandated wholesale fibre access depend on final rates, stakeholders say

Internet and Governance | 08/13/2024 9:43 am EDT

Effects of mandated wholesale fibre access depend on final rates, stakeholders say

While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...

CRTC denies expedited decision on Big Three’s FTTP wholesale access

telecom | 05/06/2024 7:28 pm EDT

CRTC denies expedited decision on Big Three's FTTP wholesale access

Friday the CRTC denied an application by several stakeholders for an...

CRTC told not to grant FTTP access to big telecoms

telecom | 04/22/2024 6:25 pm EDT

Federal and territorial governments invest in NWT fibre link

A wealth of intervenors have told the CRTC that the large established telecoms should not be allowed to...

Strong internet growth in Q2, Cogeco reports

telecom | 04/12/2024 9:01 pm EDT

Strong internet growth in Q2, Cogeco reports

Cogeco Inc. reported strong internet subscriber growth for the second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, it...

Broadcasters oppose AMI’s proposed mandatory carriage rate increase

Media | 04/10/2024 6:49 pm EDT

CCSA decries Shaw’s plan to cut satellite service

Major broadcasters are opposed to Accessible Media Inc.’s (AMI) request to temporarily raise the mandatory carriage rates of its AMI-tv and AMI-télé channels, citing...

UPDATED: CRTC orders Cogeco to maintain TekSavvy’s access to facilities

telecom | 04/09/2024 1:15 pm EDT

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

The CRTC has ordered Cogeco Inc. to maintain TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...

Frédéric Perron replaces Philippe Jetté at Cogeco

telecom | 03/11/2024 12:00 pm EDT

Frédéric Perron replaces Philippe Jetté at Cogeco

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 escalates dispute with Bethlehem Housing over MDU access

Media | 02/29/2024 4:35 pm EST

Neighbourhood Connect escalates dispute with Bethlehem Housing over MDU access

Neighbourhood Connect (NHC), operating under 2621159 Ontario Inc. DBA...

Reseller market is healthy, incumbents tell CRTC internet hearing

telecom | 02/15/2024 1:39 pm EST

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEO

Two large incumbent telecoms told the CRTC that broadband resellers are not...

Cogeco defends infrastructure upgrade amid TekSavvy dispute

telecom | 02/13/2024 4:58 pm EST

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

Cogeco Inc. is adamantly defending its right to upgrade infrastructure for the benefit of its customers in response to TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s recent Part 1 application regarding decommissioning its coaxial facilities. Cogeco argued that transitioning from coaxial to...

Cogeco announces acquisition of municipally-owned telecom provider

telecom | 02/05/2024 1:22 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

Cogeco Inc. announced Monday that Cogeco Connexion is acquiring an...

CCTS: Rogers received the most complaints about telecom services last year

telecom | 01/17/2024 11:13 am EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

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 profit down for Cogeco Q1 as guidance continues

telecom | 01/11/2024 4:42 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

Revenue and profits declined at Cogeco  Inc. as the Quebec firm released...

TekSavvy challenges Cogeco’s network changes 

telecom | 01/10/2024 4:57 pm EST

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. lodged a formal Part 1 complaint with the CRTC against Cogeco Inc., to address...

CRTC advises telecoms it will not meet deadlines for TPIA action

telecom | 12/19/2023 4:47 pm EST

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviews

The CRTC has told several telecommunications providers it will not be able...

Rogers sells all Cogeco shares to CDPQ to reduce Shaw debt

telecom | 12/12/2023 1:10 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

Rogers Communications Inc. has divested itself of all of its shares in...

Only foreign streamers should be paying contribution, CRTC told

Internet and Governance | 11/29/2023 10:48 am EST

Only foreign streamers should be paying contribution, CRTC told

Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution...

CTS 2023 regulatory panel react to CRTC mandated FTTP wholesale access

telecom | 11/08/2023 1:10 pm EST

CTS 2023 regulatory panel react to CRTC mandated FTTP wholesale access

UPDATED: CTS regulatory blockbuster react to CRTC FTTP decision MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Regulatory experts at The 2023 Canadian Telecom Summit reacted to a CRTC decision...

Competitors oppose incumbents’ stance in second phase of FTTP access review

telecom | 10/19/2023 5:15 pm EDT

Competitors oppose incumbents’ stance in second phase of FTTP access review

The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...

Cogeco announces new senior executive

telecom | 09/15/2023 4:26 pm EDT

Cogeco announces new senior executive

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 appoints Tim Dinesen as CTO

telecom | 09/07/2023 4:50 pm EDT

Cogeco appoints Tim Dinesen as CTO

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 its head office in Montreal on Sept. 11.  "Tim's impressive track record, extensive experience in telecommunications, and passion for technology make him the ideal candidate for this highly strategic position at Cogeco as our business...

No financial justification to increase skinny basic rate from $25 to $28: CRTC

Media | 09/05/2023 3:40 pm EDT

CCSA decries Shaw’s plan to cut satellite service

The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...

Vandals destroy Cogeco equipment in North Bay Ont.

telecom | 07/31/2023 4:45 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

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...

Support grows for Meta boycott following News Act blackout

Media | 07/10/2023 2:46 pm EDT

CRTC consulting on new radio stations in Northern Ontario

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...

Change financial threshold for Online Streaming Act exemptions, CRTC told

Internet and Governance | 06/15/2023 6:05 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...

Cogeco 2023 wireless launch debatable: Analyst

telecom | 06/02/2023 3:44 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

It remains unclear if Cogeco Inc. will debut an MVNO offering in its Canadian cable footprint by the end...

Shaw defends off-tariff agreements, Telus calls for review in TekSavvy complaint 

telecom | 02/23/2023 12:11 pm EST

Quebecor spectrum sale has 'broad implications': Barclays

Shaw Communications Inc. has argued that the type of off-tariff-agreement...

CRTC reopens basic television price hike proceeding

Media | 02/21/2023 5:25 pm EST

CCSA decries Shaw’s plan to cut satellite service

 The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications Inc., and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Co. can increase the retail price of so-called "skinny basic" plans from $25 to $28 per month with a yearly indexing...

Cogeco announces acquisition of Oxio

telecom | 02/21/2023 5:05 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

Cogeco Inc. announced it is acquiring independent internet service provider (ISP) Oxio. In a Tuesday...

CRTC grants Cogeco five new speed tiers

telecom | 01/09/2023 4:34 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

In a Monday decision, the CRTC approved five new disaggregated Ethernet passive optical network...

Champagne announces network sharing agreement following Rogers outage

telecom | 09/07/2022 4:35 pm EDT

Champagne announces network sharing agreement following Rogers outage

Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced a network sharing agreement for telecom service providers (TSPs) in response to the...

CNOC back regional carriers’ call for roaming rates review

telecom | 06/24/2022 5:00 pm EDT

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MP

The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has filed an intervention in...

ILECs and CLECs spar over telecom fees amendments

telecom | 06/10/2022 4:33 pm EDT

ILECs and CLECs spar over telecom fees amendments

Rogers Communications Inc. and Cogeco Inc. are among competitors protesting proposed changes to the...

Regional wireless carriers seek review of incumbents’ roaming rates

telecom | 05/24/2022 5:43 pm EDT

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MP

A consortium of regional wireless competitors have filed an application...

Cogeco still waiting on MVNO terms and conditions, reports increase in Q2 revenue and profits

Media | 04/14/2022 4:45 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

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...

Little support for CRTC forbearance policy review following Part 1 application

telecom | 04/12/2022 3:53 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is the only...

CRTC sides with regional wireless carriers in roaming decision

telecom | 04/06/2022 6:24 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against the big three in a ruling on seamless handoff and 5G roaming. In a lengthy decision issued Wednesday, the commission sought to make life easier for the regional players by finding in their favour in...

Feds rollout $20 a month internet for low-income families and seniors

telecom | 04/04/2022 1:22 pm EDT

ISED’s low-income internet program launches

The federal government is providing low-income families and seniors with...

CRTC approves Arsenal, Cogeco, radio swap

Media | 03/25/2022 2:42 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

The CRTC approved two separate applications by Cogeco Inc. and Arsenal Media which would essentially see...

Union files for mediation in talks with Cogeco

Media | 03/21/2022 5:44 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

Cogeco Inc. has two different labour disputes brewing, according to the union representing two different...

Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC

telecom | 02/10/2022 5:42 pm EST

Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC

The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...

Class-action will not shrink despite Videotron arbitration clause, court rules

telecom | 01/31/2022 6:20 pm EST

Class-action will not shrink despite Videotron arbitration clause, court rules

The Superior Court of Quebec denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to exclude from a class-action group any companies that signed an arbitration clause with the...

Rogers, Quebecor, Cogeco lag behind in pandemic pick up: analyst

telecom | 12/02/2021 5:48 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

Of Canada’s big three telecom companies, Rogers Communications Inc. is...

At CRTC, Cogeco cites Rogers opposition to Bell-Astral merger

Media | 11/25/2021 10:05 am EST

At CRTC, Cogeco cites Rogers opposition to Bell-Astral merger

On the third day of CRTC hearings into the proposed takeover of Shaw...

Cogeco given permission to provide telephony service Lambton, Que.

telecom | 11/16/2021 10:44 am EST

Cogeco given permission to provide telephony service Lambton, Que.

The CRTC is permitting Cogeco Connexion Inc. to provide telephony services...

Cogeco’s Jetté concerned about MVNO tariff negotiations

telecom | 11/15/2021 2:59 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

MISSISSAUGA - Even at the earliest stages of the CRTC’s new mobile...

Cogeco expects to enter mobile rate negotiations by spring, summer 2022 earliest

telecom | 11/12/2021 5:02 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

Cogeco Inc.’s CEO said it is a multi-step process it has to follow before...

Dynamic site-blocking case gets Nov. 23 hearing date 

Media | 11/03/2021 5:51 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever 'dynamic' site-blocking order

A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed for a three-day hearing starting on Nov. 23, with the possibility for a fourth day of arguments. In the case, BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. are asking the court to force a...

Delay Rogers-Shaw CRTC hearing until its clear who controls Rogers: PIAC  

Media | 11/01/2021 5:35 pm EDT

Delay Rogers-Shaw CRTC hearing until its clear who controls Rogers: PIAC   

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to delay a hearing...

Bell, Rogers, Quebecor apply for extended site-blocking in GoldTV

Media | 10/26/2021 9:30 am EDT

Telecoms’ site-blocking court request ‘draconian,’ TekSavvy argues

A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...

CRTC approves work on  Cogeco, Columbia Basin, Broadband Fund projects

telecom | 10/22/2021 6:14 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Two telecom companies can start work on their Broadband Fund projects now...

CRTC to allow CPAC to participate in Rogers-Shaw hearing 

Media | 10/13/2021 6:28 pm EDT

CRTC to allow CPAC to participate in Rogers-Shaw hearing 

The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known as CPAC -- the right to appear at the regulator's hearings into the proposed merger between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc., scheduled for Nov. 22.  In an Oct. 7 letter to...

CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications

Media | 10/05/2021 4:06 pm EDT

CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications

The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...

CRTC sending Cogeco and Wildbrain to mediation over channel drop dispute

telecom | 08/18/2021 5:03 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

A dispute over Cogeco Inc. dropping children’s television content creator...

CRTC orders some incumbent disclosure to CNOC in disaggregated regime consultation 

Media | 08/13/2021 11:13 am EDT

CNOC petitions gov on wholesale rates

In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...

Cogeco hires Fido VP Nancy Audette 

telecom | 07/26/2021 4:56 pm EDT

Cogeco hires Fido VP Nancy Audette 

Cogeco Inc. cable subsidiary Cogeco Connexion has signed on Fido Mobile VP Nancy Audette as its own vice...

High spectrum costs could be driven by competition for set aside: analyst

telecom | 07/15/2021 6:32 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.

Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...

Cogeco reports rise in Q3 revenue as it eyes a ‘landmark year’ in 2022 

telecom | 07/15/2021 5:58 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

Cogeco Inc. saw a rise in revenue and profit this spring and though CEO...

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever ‘dynamic’ site-blocking order

Media | 07/08/2021 6:22 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever 'dynamic' site-blocking order

Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...

Cogeco getting millions more in high-speed funding

telecom | 06/08/2021 5:53 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

Cogeco Inc. is getting more than $40 million in funding for high-speed internet projects in Quebec. ...

Incumbents “should be comforted”, Rogers could move first on mandated access: analysts

telecom | 04/16/2021 5:11 pm EDT

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,...