SAGUENAY – Quebec cable provider Videotron is investing $9 million to modernize its network in the city of Saguenay over the next 12 months.
The project, affecting about 66,000 homes, will provide increased network bandwidth, offering customers improved access to a wider variety of services and technology, the company said in a statement.
“Videotron’s primary goal is to offer customers the best experience possible,” said Videotron president and CEO Robert Dépatie. “This modernization program will allow us to continue to be a leader in offering customers distinctive, reliable, leading-edge services.”
With bandwidth increasing from 625 MHz to 800Mhz, the network infrastructure will be even more robust, reducing interventions by technicians, broadening the availability of HDTV, and supporting the increased bandwidth demand from Videotron’s Internet and cable telephony services.
As such, the bolstered network will be able to handle the equivalent of 800 digital TV channels or 126 HD channels.
Videotron says its continued growth is creating jobs, and it will soon need to fill about 600 positions across eastern Quebec, including 100 in Saguenay.
