Cable / Telecom News

Videotron’s VOIP, digital, keep rolling


MONTREAL – Videotron keeps adding thousands of phone customers. In its second quarter financial results announced today, the company reported it had 41,800 subscribers at the end of June, 2005. After launching its voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) telephone service in Montreal South Shore and Laval in the first quarter of 2005, Videotron rolled out the service in the West Island on May 25 and the Quebec City area on July 11. The consumer response in Quebec City has been particularly promising thus far. “There is no indication that it will slow down,” Videotron president Robert Depatie told a conference...