Cable / Telecom News

Quebecor records customer gains across all services

MONTREAL – Solid third quarter growth at Videotron helped to offset declines at Quebecor’s media division for its third quarter ended September 30th.In its telecommunications segment, the company recorded gains in its customer base as follows: - + 32,800 for cable telephone service;- + 32,100 for cable Internet access;- + 20,500 for cable television (including a 40,300 customer increase for digital TV); and- + 8,400 subscriber connections on mobile telephone service.Videotron said that it ended the quarter with 1,098,100 cable telephone customers; 1,802,000 basic cable subscribers, including 1,182,300 subscribers to its digital TV service; and 1,233,800 Internet subscribers.Three weeks after launching its new 3G+...