Videotron’s Q3 figures released

As of 30 September 2008, Quebec-based cableco Videotron had 1.692 million subscribers to its cable television service, including 877,000 subscribers to digital TV, with the total viewer base up by 31,000 during the quarter and by 53,000 on a year-to-date basis. At the end of the third quarter Videotron had 1.031 million cable internet access subscribers, an increase of 36,400 in three months, and 98,000 since the beginning of the year. Videotron’s cable telephony service also sustained its success during the third quarter; Quebec households and organisations had activated a total of 798,000 fixed phone lines on the network as of end-September, up by 55,000 quarter-on-quarter and 162,000 since 1 January. The cableco, which recently released plans to roll out its own mobile network, had signed up a total of 58,600 subscribers to its MVNO mobile phone service by 30 September, including 14,000 since the beginning of 2008.