Cogeco Communications Inc.

Cogeco Communications Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 1972, it is a subsidiary of the holding company Cogeco Inc., which was established in 1957. Cogeco Communications is a public company with shares traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CCA. For fiscal year 2025, the company reported annual revenue of $2.9 billion and has approximately 3,900 employees.

As the eighth-largest cable operator in North America, Cogeco Communications provides broadband services to residential and business customers. Its offerings include internet, video, wireless, and wireline phone services. The company operates in Canada under the brands Cogeco and oxio, primarily in Quebec and Ontario. In the United States, it provides services in thirteen states under the Breezeline brand.

Cogeco Communications' patent litigation history shows it as an operating company defending its business. The company has been a defendant in one tracked U.S. patent case and has not appeared as a plaintiff. This defensive posture is typical for a company focused on product and service delivery rather than patent assertion. The single tracked case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, not a venue commonly associated with high-volume patent assertion entities.

The tracked case is Dish Technologies L.L.C. et al. v. Cogeco Inc. et al., filed in 2023. This lawsuit involves another major operating company in the communications sector, Dish Technologies, rather than a non-practicing entity (NPE).