Videotron launches VOIP on North Shore

MONTREAL – Today, Quebec MSO Videotron began rolling out voice service on the North Shore of Montreal. In under a year after its launch, Videotron’s voice over Internet protocol telephony product is now available on the South Shore of Montreal, Laval and Quebec City. Featuring an extremely low (some say too low) base price of $16 a month, Quebecor Media-owned Videotron recently surpassed the 100,000 voice subscriber mark. "Our new cable telephone service has been an instant hit since we introduced it at the beginning of the year," said Robert Depatie, president and CEO of Videotron, in a press release. "We are...