TAGGED AS PHILIPPE JETTE
Wholesale model upside down: Jetté
| 05/24/2023 6:18 pm EDT
According to the CEO of one of Canada's largest regional internet service providers, the recent state of acquisitions in the telecom market has effectively inverted the wholesale model from what it was meant to be.
“Through their acquisition of smaller players [BCE Inc....
Cogeco releases Q2 numbers, plans to enter MVNO market
telecom | 04/14/2023 4:50 pm EDT
Cogeco Communications Inc. plans to aggressively enter the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) sphere now that the situation in the marketplace has stabilized.
Company CEO Philippe Jetté made the remarks in a conference call following the release of the...
Cogeco ‘very optimistic on wireless’: CEO
telecom | 10/31/2019 5:54 pm EDT
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,...
IPTV coming by December, Cogeco says
Media | 07/11/2019 4:21 pm EDT
Cogeco Inc. will launch its new IPTV service in its entire Canadian footprint by the end of the calendar...
Cogeco offering no details on MVNO strategy
telecom | 04/10/2019 4:14 pm EDT
Cogeco Inc. has long been a vocal proponent of mandated mobile virtual operators in Canada, so it’s no...
Cogeco selling Peer 1 data centre business for $720M
telecom | 02/27/2019 3:29 pm EST
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 says it’s not worried about internet speed coverage
telecom | 01/11/2019 5:18 pm EST
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...
Cogeco’s transition to new customer system drags down Q4
Media | 11/02/2018 4:52 pm EDT
Cogeco Inc.’s implementation of a new customer management system, which...
New CEO announced for Cogeco, Audet vows family to retain control
Media | 05/15/2018 7:36 pm EDT
MONTREAL — Despite a generational change at the helm of Cogeco Inc., the...
Tony Ciciretto stepping down from Cogeco Peer 1
Media | 10/28/2015 8:46 pm EDT
Cogeco Cable Inc. announced Wednesday that Tony Ciciretto, CEO of its business unit Cogeco Peer 1, will be stepping down and replaced by chief technology and strategy officer Philippe Jette. “It is with regret that we are...
Cogeco, SaskTel warn against mandatory wholesale on fibre connections
telecom | 11/27/2014 9:19 pm EST
GATINEAU, Que. — Two Canadian Internet service providers told the CRTC on Thursday that opening up fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks to wholesale access could hurt the “fragile”...
Government pressured to open more WiFi spectrum
telecom | 11/05/2014 6:23 pm EST
Industry Canada is being lobbied to open up more unlicensed spectrum for wireless Internet, as the United States did earlier this year. Government briefing notes and emails written in advance of a meeting planned for May 27...
Paying retail for wholesale access isn’t good enough, say carriers
telecom | 09/29/2014 9:40 pm EDT
GATINEAU, Que. — Legislation introduced earlier this year that caps wholesale wireless roaming rates to what host carriers charge their own retail customers doesn't create the conditions necessary for smaller operators to compete, representatives from Wind Mobile and Mobilicity told the CRTC on Monday. It was the...