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Cogeco Cable's High Speed Internet hits the road with new Wi-Fi access
Cogeco Cable's High Speed Internet hits the road with new Wi-Fi access.
About this update from Cogeco Communications Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nMONTREAL, March 9 /CNW Telbec/ - Today Cogeco launched its Wi-Fi Internet\naccess in Ontario with nearly 150 access points spread throughout the\nBurlington, Oakville and Hamilton areas. As of today, all Cogeco Cable High\nSpeed Internet (HSI) customers in Ontario will be able to take advantage of\nthis new service, at no additional charge. For Cogeco HSI customers, accessing\nthe Internet or their email accounts through their portable wireless devices\noutside their home or office will now be as simple as logging in with their\nCogeco email address and password, around any of these access points.\n\n\n"We're very pleased to bring this new service to our HSI customers," said\nRon Perrotta, Vice President, Marketing at Cogeco Cable. "Wi-Fi continues to\ngrow in popularity as more and more people need an Internet connection to\nwork, study or surf on the web in many different locations. We are proud to be\nthe only major Internet service provider in our markets to provide its\ncustomers with Wi-Fi access, at no additional charge, as part of their HSI\nsubscription."\n\n\nWi-Fi access points have been deployed at strategic sites in Cogeco's\nfootprint such as cafes, restaurants, recreation facilities and libraries.\nLike the F-Secure security suite, Cogeco's Wi-Fi access represents an\ninteresting added value for Cogeco's HSI customers. More details about the\nservice along with the list of Wi-Fi access points can be found on Cogeco's\nwebsite at Cogeco.ca/wifi.\n\n\nABOUT COGECO CABLE\n\n\nCogeco Cable (www.cogeco.ca), a telecommunications company offering a\ndiverse range of services to its customers in Canada and in Portugal, is the\nsecond largest cable operator in Ontario, Quebec and Portugal, in terms of the\nnumber of basic cable service customers served. The Corporation invests in\nstate-of-the-art broadband network facilities, delivers a wide range of\nservices over these facilities with great speed and reliability at attractive\nprices, and strives to provide both superior customer care and growing\nprofitability to satisfy its customers' varied electronic communication needs.\nThrough its two-way broadband cable networks, Cogeco Cable provides its\nresidential and commercial customers with analog and digital video and audio\nservices, high speed Internet access as well as telephony services. T...