MONTREAL, March 9 /CNW Telbec/ - Today Cogeco launched its Wi-Fi Internet access in Ontario with nearly 150 access points spread throughout the Burlington, Oakville and Hamilton areas. As of today, all Cogeco Cable High Speed Internet (HSI) customers in Ontario will be able to take advantage of this new service, at no additional charge. For Cogeco HSI customers, accessing the Internet or their email accounts through their portable wireless devices outside their home or office will now be as simple as logging in with their Cogeco email address and password, around any of these access points.
"We're very pleased to bring this new service to our HSI customers," said Ron Perrotta, Vice President, Marketing at Cogeco Cable. "Wi-Fi continues to grow in popularity as more and more people need an Internet connection to work, study or surf on the web in many different locations. We are proud to be the only major Internet service provider in our markets to provide its customers with Wi-Fi access, at no additional charge, as part of their HSI subscription."
Wi-Fi access points have been deployed at strategic sites in Cogeco's footprint such as cafes, restaurants, recreation facilities and libraries. Like the F-Secure security suite, Cogeco's Wi-Fi access represents an interesting added value for Cogeco's HSI customers. More details about the service along with the list of Wi-Fi access points can be found on Cogeco's website at Cogeco.ca/wifi.
ABOUT COGECO CABLE
Cogeco Cable (www.cogeco.ca), a telecommunications company offering a diverse range of services to its customers in Canada and in Portugal, is the second largest cable operator in Ontario, Quebec and Portugal, in terms of the number of basic cable service customers served. The Corporation invests in state-of-the-art broadband network facilities, delivers a wide range of services over these facilities with great speed and reliability at attractive prices, and strives to provide both superior customer care and growing profitability to satisfy its customers' varied electronic communication needs. Through its two-way broadband cable networks, Cogeco Cable provides its residential and commercial customers with analog and digital video and audio services, high speed Internet access as well as telephony services. The Corporation provides about 1,649,000 revenue-generating units (RGUs) to approximately 1,439,000 homes passed in its Canadian service territory and 650,000 RGUs to approximately 829,000 homes passed in its Portuguese service territory. Cogeco Cable's subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CCA).