Cogeco Communications Inc. (CCA) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good day and welcome to Cogico Inc. and Cogico Communications Inc. 4th Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Patrice Ouimet, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Cogico Inc. and Cogico Communications Inc. Please go ahead, Mr. Ouimet. So thank you. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our fourth quarter conference call. So as usual, before I begin the call, I'd like to remind listeners that today's discussion will include estimates and forward-looking information. We ask that you review the cautionary language in the press releases issued yesterday and in our annual reports regarding various risks, assumptions, and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ. And with that, I'll pass the line to our CEO, Frédéric Théron, for opening remarks. Thank you Patrice, good morning everyone, and thank you for joining us for our Q4 2024 results. We're pleased to report a solid set of results again this quarter and to have delivered on our guidance for the year, including a particularly strong free cash flow performance. Since my appointment as CEO in March, we've remained focused on five key strategic priorities. US-Canada synergies, digitization, advanced analytics, disciplined network expansion, and wireless. I'm pleased to report that we continue to make significant progress in each of those areas. Regarding synergies, we successfully completed the merger of our US and Canadian teams and as of September 1st, are now operating under a unified operating model. This integration is generating cost savings, which will be strategically reinvested in key growth drivers where we've historically lagged competition, including digital and revenue analyt...