MTS TV takes 20% of Winnipeg. More bandwidth, new services, coming soon

TORONTO – Manitoba Telecom Services president Cheryl Barker said Tuesday that the company recently added its 45,000th digital television customer, meaning the Manitoba telco now serves over 20% of all TV customers in Winnipeg.During a panel session at the BMO Nesbitt Burns Media and Telecom conference Tuesday in Toronto Barker said that the company hit the mark on September 5th (leaving unsaid the sizable dent the figure put in Shaw Cable’s customer rolls in the city). MTS TV is a digital subscriber line delivered digital TV service which offers three streams of digital TV and high speed Internet to customers...