Press release details

Montréal, February 1, 2016 – Cogeco Connexion is pleased to announce that it is investing more than $250,000 to roll out a fibre optic network that will serve several homes and businesses in the city of Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane. Work to install the network will begin in February 2016, with service to be activated in the ensuing months. The fibre optic network will extend directly to homes and businesses, enabling citizens of Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane to enjoy the full spectrum of Cogeco Connexion services, including television, high-speed Internet and telephony. 

“Cogeco Connexion already owns and operates a fiber optics network of over 11,000 km in Ontario and Québec,” states Michel Blais, Vice President, Customer Solutions, Cogeco Connexion. “The ongoing expansion of our network into high-potential markets is a business priority for us. To that end, we are leveraging several different leading-edge technologies that can enable very high speeds. In the case of Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane, we have chosen to roll out fibre to the premises,” adds Mr. Blais.

Cogeco Connexion will henceforth offer its range of residential and business services to the premises served by the new network. Residential customers will be able to subscribe to Cogeco TiVo service, which includes a Whole Home DVR with the ability to record up to six shows in HD simultaneously, high-speed Internet service providing connection speeds of up to 120 Mbps and unlimited downloads with select packages, as well as home phone service allowing customers to keep their current number. Business customers, meanwhile, will enjoy competitively priced packages including telephony, high-speed Internet, cloud computing applications, and more.   

“We are proud to be expanding our network to serve residential and business customers in Saint-Jérôme-de-Matane and to soon be providing them with optimized services,” enthuses Daniel Boisvert, Vice President, Marketing and Innovation, Cogeco Connexion. “Roll-out of this fibre optics network will not only enable us to deliver all of our currently available services, but will also give us greater flexibility to implement the products of tomorrow.”

To learn more about Cogeco Connexion’s services, visit www.cogeco.ca.

 

ABOUT COGECO CONNEXION

Cogeco Connexion (www.cogeco.ca) regroups the Canadian cable operations of Cogeco Communications Inc. Cogeco Connexion is the second largest cable operator in Ontario and Québec in terms of the number of basic cable service customers served. It provides its residential and small business customers with video, Internet and telephony services through its two-way broadband fiber rich network. Cogeco Communications Inc. is a communications corporation and is the 11th largest hybrid fibre coaxial cable operator in North America operating in Canada under the Cogeco Connexion brand name in Québec and Ontario, and in the United States through its subsidiary Atlantic Broadband in western Pennsylvania, south Florida, Maryland/Delaware, South Carolina and eastern Connecticut. Through Cogeco Peer 1, Cogeco Communications Inc. provides its business customers with a suite of information technology services (colocation, network connectivity, managed hosting, cloud services and managed IT services), through its 21 data centres, extensive FastFiber NetworkTM and more than 50 points-of-presence in North America and Europe. Cogeco Communications Inc.’s subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CCA).

 

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Katherine Chartrand

Director, Public Relations

Cogeco Connexion

514 764-4674

katherine.chartrand@cogeco.com