Breezeline’s Owner Plots Expansion of Wireless Service in US

Cable and internet provider Cogeco Communications Inc. plans to begin selling wireless services in the US in an effort to reignite growth and retain more customers.

The company that owns Breezeline, the eighth-largest US cable operator, is negotiating deals to lease capacity on other wireless firms’ networks, Cogeco Chief Executive Officer Philippe Jetté told analysts Thursday. It’s a business model known as mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO.

Breezeline’s Montreal-based parent is starting with wireless services in the US, rather than its home market of Canada, because it’s easier to negotiate reasonable terms with existing wireless companies, Jetté said. ...