MONTRÉAL—Cogeco Communications Inc. has announced that Breezeline, its U.S. business unit offering broadband services in 13 states, will be adding mobile phone services to its product offering.

Breezeline Mobile will be available to Breezeline's broadband customers starting this spring through a Mobile Virtual Network Operator ("MVNO") agreement with an industry-leading mobile network.

"We are thrilled to announce the launch of mobile services within our Breezeline operating regions," said Frédéric Perron, president and CEO of Cogeco. "This important new service will not only help us expand our product offering, but will also allow us to better meet the growing needs of our customers who wish to bundle a flexible and reliable mobility offering with their broadband service."

"Our customers have told us they find value in bundled services and prefer doing business with Breezeline because of the exceptional customer experience," added Frank van der Post, president of Breezeline. "Breezeline Mobile will provide choice, reliable network coverage, flexible plans, and bundled savings for Breezeline customers."

TORONTO—Cogeco Media, which is one of Quebec's largest radio broadcasters, has selected Quickplay's cloud-native, open-architecture OTT platform to power the development of a new generation of audio services that will offer access to content on multiple devices and provide better personalization and discovery for 5 million listeners.

"Cogeco Media needed technology and expertise that could help them seize new opportunities and future-proof their business," said Quickplay's chief business officer and co-founder, Paul Pastor. "Our collaborative approach is using the proven flexibility, extensibility, and scale of our platform to help the Cogeco Media team reshape audience experiences, create new content opportunities, and pivot to new business models."

"Personalized experiences that deliver high-quality content where, when, and how audiences want it is the future of audio." Jean-Sébastine Lemire, vice-president, entertainment radio strategies and digital platform at Cogeco Media. "Quickplay's innovative platform and their vast digital transformation experience will help us meet the rapid evolution of digital media and audience expectations head-on, and integrate new AI-powered features in the future."

The partnership with Quickplay will evolve Cogeco Media's platform into a one to one experience that will differentiate Cogeco Media's radio services with a number of new capabilities, including:

• Streamlined content delivery and management across 21 stations, multiple listening devices, languages, formats, and more, including availability on Apple CarPlay and Android Audio.
• An intuitive, visually appealing user interface and high-quality audio and on-demand experiences to improve user experiences.
• Fast, flexible development of new apps to address new audience needs.
• Upgraded metadata systems and processes to capitalize on opportunities based on audience insights.
• AI-driven content personalization to enhance user engagement.
• The Quickplay platform ultimately will leverage Cogeco Media's Google Cloud partnership to unlock generative AI capabilities including speech-to-text, annotations, transcript creation, and targeted content personalization for listeners.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—Canadian-based cable operator Cogeco Connexions has acquired the LogServer platform for its next generation logging and monitoring requirements, Mediaproxy reports. The SDI system is set to be installed at Cogeco’s Burlington, Canada facility.

The LogServer platform offers 24/7 multi-channel recording and review of SD/HD and 4K input sources through web-based user interfaces. The system provides regulatory compliance for content, closed caption, and loudness as either a turnkey or software-only license. It also features live broadcast monitoring for SDI, ASI/IP and OTT sources; access to Monwall IP multiviewer for proxy and native MPEG decoding; and new data panels for low bandwidth transport stream and OTT monitoring.

Mediaproxy is based in Australia and provides systems for broadcast compliance logging and content monitoring.