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• UBS Analyst: Cogeco Is Most Defensive Play in Cable

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-23

  FP Trading Desk submits: Canadian cable company Cogeco Inc. (CGEAF.PK) is the safest bet in the sector, according to UBS analyst Jeffrey Fan who initiated coverage on the company yesterday. Mr. Fan wrote in his note to clients: by FP Trading Desk

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• Fitch Initiates 'BB+' IDR, 'BBB-' Secured Ratings to Cogeco Cable; Outlook Stable

  - 2008-01-17

  CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings has initiated rating coverage on Cogeco Cable Inc., as follows: Cogeco Cable Inc. Cogeco Cable --Issuer Default Rating IDR 'BB+'; --Senior secured notes 'BBB-'; --Senior secured credit facility 'BBB-'. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The ratings incorporate Cogeco Cable's improving...

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• Cogeco F1Q08 (Qtr End 11/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-01-10

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you [operator instructions]. Please stand by for the first question. The first question comes form Peter McDonald, GMP Securities, please go ahead. Peter McDonald, GMP Securities Thanks, can you quantify the higher operating costs inPortugal? How much was marketing and how much of...

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• Why Canada's cable telephony trials crashed and burned; though ambitious, Cogeco's and Videotron's initial work with packetized voice services was fraught with technical and operational tribulations.

  - 2002-05-01

  Just a few short years ago, Voiceover-IP VoIP via a cable TV infrastructure seemed a sure bet in Canada. In fact, both Groupe Videotron and Cogeco Cable--at the time Canada's second- and fourth- largest MSOs respectively, in terms of number of subscribers--were diving headlong into VoIP....

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• Shaw Buys Stake In MSO Cogeco.(Brief Article)

  - 2000-02-07

  CALGARY, ALBERTA -- Canada's second-largest operator, Shaw Communications, has taken a 9.1-percent stake in the country's fourth-largest MSO, Cogeco Cable, the companies said Friday. Shaw officials said the company does not have the "current" intention of taking over Cogeco. The transaction...

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• Groupe Videotron ltee - Cogeco Offer for CFCF Inc. Pointless

  - 1996-04-24

  MONTREAL--BUSINESS WIRE--April 24, 1996--LE GROUPE VIDEOTRON (ME, TSE: VDO ) In response to the amended offer for CFCF Inc. made public by Cogeco Cable today, Le Groupe Videotron states that Cogeco's offer is of no value to the shareholders of CFCF since Cogeco has not waived its condition that...

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• CFCF Inc. issues a circular to its shareholders

  - 1995-12-11

  MONTREAL--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 11, 1995--CFCF INC.(ME, TSE: CF) Today, CFCF is sending its shareholders a circular emanating from its Board of Directors with respect to the offer of November 22, 1995, of Cogeco Cable Inc. to acquire all the outstanding shares of CFCF Inc.The directors unanimously endorsed the Special...

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• The transaction between CFCF Inc. and Le Groupe Videotron is not in doubt

  - 1995-11-24

  MONTREAL--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 24, 1995--CFCF Inc.'s (ME,TSE:CF) senior management wished to stress today that the decision of Deputy Chief Justice Lyse Lemieux of the Superior Court of Quebec to hear Cogeco's petition on December 14 and 15 in no way puts the transaction between the two companies in doubt.In light of...

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