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Rogers alleges Videotron has refused subscriber audits for OMNI distribution

Videotron says no undue preference or disadvantage By Ahmad Hathout Rogers is alleging Videotron has refused to allow the cable giant to audit its subscriber information for the purposes of determining whether it’s paying a proper rate of access for Rogers’s OMNI Regional programming. The comments come in an intervention supporting a complaint by not-for-profit media company Accessible Media Inc. (AMI), which alleges Videotron is forcing it to sign a pre-audit memorandum of understanding (MOU) before AMI is allowed to analyze Videotron’s subscriber records. The problem, according to AMI, is that the MOU includes language that turns bulk subscribers from...