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May 19, 2022
Federal Court denies Telus bid to block Quebecor’s $830M spectrum purchase in western Canada
A Federal Court judge has rejected a challenge by Telus Communications Inc. to Quebecor Inc.’s right to purchase spectrum in western Canada to develop 5G cellular technology for mobile phones. Vidéotron’s application confirmed that it had an affiliate called Fibrenoire that was registered with the CRTC as a facilities-based provider and indicated areas where it was already providing commercial telecommunications services to the general public.

April 01, 2019
Fibrenoire Adds VMware SD-WAN Service by VeloCloud to its business offering
Today, Fibrenoire, a Videotron subsidiary company and a leading provider of connectivity solutions fully dedicated to businesses, announced the addition of the VMware SD-WAN solution by VeloCloud to its service offerings. The VMware SD-WAN solution enables businesses to securely support application growth in the cloud and increase network flexibility, in addition to provides them with greater agility in implementing and configuring branch offices across the network.

March 05, 2018
Novacap Management Winner of CVCA’s 2017 Private Capital Regional Impact Award for Fibrenoire
Novacap management Inc. has been named a 2017 CVCA Regional Impact Award winner for Montréal-based Fibrenoire Technologies. Since the company’s 2016 exit, it has scaled tremendously making a positive, notable impact in Québec and beyond.

October 21, 2016
Fibrenoire co-founders invest more than $2 million to support future Polytechnique “technopreneurs”
The three founding partners of Fibrenoire, Benjamin Desmarais, Rémi Fournier and Jean-François Lévesque, all of whom are Polytechnique alumni, today announced a donation of more than $2 million to the Polytechnique Foundation to support Poly students who are interested in starting a technology company, as they did.

January 07, 2016
Videotron acquires Fibrenoire to meet growing demand in the Québec business market
Videotron has acquired Fibrenoire, a company that provides businesses with fibre-optic connectivity services. The transaction will enable Videotron Business Solutions and Fibrenoire to join forces to meet the growing demand from business customers for fibre-optic connectivity. The purchase price was $125 million.

September 25, 2014
Fibrenoire – Accélérateur de… croissance ! [French only]
Dans un monde déjà ultra-pressé, Fibrenoire n’offre pas à ses clients de ralentir. Au contraire ! La mission de cette entreprise montréalaise spécialisée dans la connexion Internet sur fibre optique est de leur permettre d’accélérer.

September 21, 2014
Benjamin Desmarais, CEO Fibrenoire, Elected CEO of the Year Investissement Quebec 2014
Technology CEOs attending the prestigious CEO Vision event at Mont-Tremblant elected Benjamin Desmarais, CEO of Fibrenoire as “2014 Investissement Québec CEO of the Year”. The CEOs in attendance selected the winner by a secret ballot following presentations by the three finalists highlighting their entrepreneurial achievements for 2013.

May 08, 2014
Fibrenoire provides connectivity services to more than 1,000 Quebec businesses
Benjamin Desmarais and two friends were fresh out of university when they hatched the bold idea of competing directly with the country’s biggest telecom firms.Seven years later, their company Fibrenoire Internet Inc. claims to operate the largest fibre optic network in Quebec that’s dedicated exclusively to business customers.

May 01, 2014
Fibrenoire Acquires Pixel Web and Continues to Grow
Fibrenoire, a telecommunication company specializing in fibre optic connectivity services for businesses in Quebec and Ontario, continues to expand. Fibrenoire announces its acquisition of Pixel Web, a company specializing in Internet access technology and telecommunication services.