Videotron exceeds forecast for third straight quarter

MONTREAL - Videotron reported Tuesday that it posted “impressive” growth for the third consecutive quarter, exceeding its subscription forecasts for each of its four products - cable television, cable telephone, Internet access and wireless telephone service. The Quebecor Media subsidiary said that as of Sept. 30, it had a total cable TV customer base of 1.6 million. In the third quarter of 2007, it posted a net increase of 41,000 subscribers to its illico Digital TV service, bringing the total to 720 000. Videotron’s video-on-demand service, illico on Demand, logged more than 15.6 million paid and free orders in the...