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Cogeco Cable Upgrades its Digital and High Definition TV Services
Cogeco Cable Upgrades its Digital and High Definition TV Services.
About this update from Cogeco Communications Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nMONTREAL, Aug. 22 /CNW Telbec/ - Cogeco Cable (TSX: CCA) today announced\nthe launch of five new High Definition (HD) channels and two new Standard\nDefinition (SD) channels.\n\"Our customers are increasingly interested in our HD television service\nas they discover the outstanding quality this technology offers. As the number\nof available high definition programs and channels increases, Cogeco Cable\nstrives to continuously provide the best possible HD offering,\" declared Mr.\nRon Perrotta, Vice President, Marketing of Cogeco Cable.\nIn the wide majority of Cogeco Cable systems in Ontario, HD customers\nsubscribing to the Movies Package will gain access to Mpix HD. Mpix offers\ndecades of unforgettable films, from classic thrillers to suspenseful and\naction-packed movies. Mpix HD, available on position 298, is also a unique\nwindow for often unseen or forgotten classic Canadian movies.\n\nFurthermore, the majority of Cogeco Cable HD customers of the Burlington,\nOakville, Hamilton, Brockville, Windsor, Lindsay, Smiths Falls and Kingston\nareas will be able to enjoy new HD channels, free of charge.\n\n>\n\nCustomers appreciate the variety, quality and control that Cogeco Cable's\nDigital Television Service provides them. The service has been gaining\npopularity with nearly 70,000 new customers in fiscal 2006(1).\n\nABOUT COGECO CABLE\n\nCogeco Cable (www.cogeco.ca), a telecommunications company offering a\ndiverse range of services to its customers in Canada and in Portugal, is the\nsecond largest cable operator in Ontario, QuDebec and Portugal in terms of the\nnumber of basic service customers served. The Corporation invests in\nstate-of-the-art broadband network facilities, delivers a wide range of\nservices over these facilities with great speed and reliability at attractive\nprices, and strives to provide both superior customer care and growing\nprofitability to satisfy its customers' varied electronic communication needs.\nThrough its two-way broadband cable infrastructures, Cogeco Cable provides its\nresidential and commercial customers with analog and digital video and audio\nservices, high-speed Internet access as well as telephony services. The\nCorporation provides about 1,511,693 revenue-generating units (RGU)(1) to\napproximately 1,469,009 homes passed(1) in its Canadian service territory and\n611,204 RG...