Cogeco Cable Canada and TGV Net Mauricie announce a partnership: More businesses, organizations and residences in areas of the Mauricie region not served by Cogeco will benefit from fibre services
PRESS RELEASE
Cogeco Cable Canada and TGV Net Mauricie announce a partnership:
More businesses, organizations and residences in areas of the Mauricie region
not served by Cogeco will benefit from fibre services
Shawinigan, Québec, November 29, 2013 —
Cogeco Cable Canada (“Cogeco”) and TGV Net
Mauricie (“TGV Net”) announced today a partnership aimed at providing businesses,
organizations and residences in the Mauricie region with access to an inter-connected fibre-optic
network and a range of related services. This agreement puts Cogeco in a position to offer
competitively priced high-speed Internet, telephone and digital television services, using the
public network owned by TGV Net and its partners, in areas where the company does not
currently operate.
“TGV Net has been looking for another network operator to increase the number of services and
projects in the Mauricie region for quite some time,” said Steve Martin, Chairman of the Board,
TGV Net. “Partnering with Cogeco, a company with a very strong local and regional presence, will
enable us to provide very reliable service to a large number of commercial partners and users,
who have been asking for such service for a long time. Ensuring steady and dependable Internet
service is a constant concern. This is precisely what prompted us to recommend that our partners
seek accreditation.”
Maryse Gervais, Executive Director at TGV Net, added: “This partnership agreement will improve
the range of services available in the Mauricie region, while also diversifying our sources of
revenue and ensuring TGV Net’s longevity. The more Internet service we are able to provide, the
better our chances of retaining our commercial and residential customers in the Mauricie region.”
And Denis Trépanier, Vice-Chair of the Board at TGV Net, also sees a brighter future with this
addition of a network provider. “As I also hold the position of Vice-President, Cognibox Evolution
and Solution at SIM in Shawinigan, I know the regional situation and the area’s fibre-optic needs
pretty well, and I think that a partnership with Cogeco will provide businesses and organizations
here with diverse, quality services.”
Johanne Hinse, Vice-President, Business Development and Sales, at Cogeco Cable Canada,
noted: “We are delighted with the vote of confidence we’ve received from the Board of TGV Net
and our network partners, and we’re proud to be working together with TGV Net, an organization
with a great reputation in the region. We’re committed to providing the excellent service for which
Cogeco is recognized and offering products at the cutting edge of technology, all while remaining
attentive to the needs of customers in the region.”
Once again this year, TGV Net filed a positive operations report with its network partners,
showing almost equal rates of revenue growth in the Chemin-du-Roy and Énergie school board
districts: 35% in the former and 36% in the latter. Network partners are the Chemin-du-Roy and
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Énergie school boards, the regional county municipalities of Les Chenaux and Mékinac, and the
cities of La Tuque, Shawinigan and Trois-Rivières.
ABOUT COGECO CABLE CANADA
Cogeco Cable Canada (www.cogeco.ca
) regroups the Canadian cable operations of Cogeco
Cable Inc. Cogeco Cable Canada is the second largest cable operator in Ontario and Quebec i n
terms of the number of Basic Cable service customers served. Cogeco Cable Inc. is a
telecommunications corporation and is the 11th largest hybrid fibre coaxial cable operator in
North America operating in Canada under the Cogeco Cable brand name in Quebec and Ontario,
and in the United States through its subsidiary Atlantic Broadband in Western Pennsylvania,
South Florida, Maryland/Delaware and South Carolina. Its two-way broadband cable networks
provide to its residential and small business customers Analogue and Digital Television, High
Speed Internet («HSI») and Telephony services. Through its subsidiaries Cogeco Data Services
and PEER 1 Hosting, Cogeco Cable Inc. provides its commercial customers a suite of IT hosting,
information and communications technology services (Data Centre, Co-location, Managed
Hosting, Cloud Infrastructure and Connectivity), with 20 data centres, extensive fibre networks in
Montreal and Toronto as well as points-of-presence in North America and Europe. Cogeco Cable
Inc.’s subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CCA).
ABOUT TGV NET MAURICIE
TGV Net Mauricie is a non-profit entity whose mission is to act as a “carrier” providing broadband
connectivity throughout the Mauricie region by having accredited service providers offer various
telecommunications services to businesses, organizations and homes in the region.
Technological advances and the fact that many areas of the Mauricie have no quality high-speed
Internet access led a number of economic players, including the Conférence régionale des Élus
(Regional Conference of Elected Officials), Local Development Centres (CLDs) and Community
Future Development Corporations (SADCs), to join forces and develop the TGV Net Mauricie
project. The non-profit corporation TGV Net Mauricie was created as a result of excess fibre
capacity owned by the Chemin-du-Roy and Énergie school boards, the regional county
municipalities of Les Chenaux and Mékinac, and the cities of the Mauricie region, including La
Tuque, Shawinigan and Trois-Rivières.
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Information: Maryse Gervais
Executive Director, TGV Net Mauricie
(819) 601-1119
Maryse.gervais@tgvnet.ca
Marilyne Cossette
Communications Officer, Cogeco Cable Canada
(819) 379-2443
Marilyne.cossette@cogeco.com