Cable / Telecom News

Videotron signs 75,000 VOIP subs

MONTREAL – Buried at the bottom of a press release touting a magazine survey and that its illico digital TV service now has about 411,000 customers was a note saying Videotron now has over 75,000 cable telephone customers. That’s zero to 75-grand in seven months. Anyone with doubts on whether cable VOIP will work can banish those thoughts forever. “Roll-out is moving ahead and meeting with continued enthusiastic response,” says the company.www.videotron.com