Cogeco Cable Canada extends its Home Phone service in Fergus and Elora, Ontario
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
Cogeco Cable Canada extends its Home Phone service
in Fergus and Elora, Ontario
Montreal, October 15, 2013 – Cogeco Cabl e Canada (“Cogeco”) is prou d to announce the launch of
Cogeco’s Home Phone service in Fergus and Elora, Ontario. Cogeco’s customers and the majority of
the residents of those communities can subscribe to Cogeco’s Home Phone service starting at $13.99
per month*.
Cogeco Home Phone is a residential service of high quality that combines choice, value and flexibility.
To sign up, customers simply select one of three packages plus any additional calling features they
wish. Cogeco’s technical services take it from there, with fast, professional installation, allowing
customers to start saving, with no change to their current phone number.
“We’re excited to l aunch our Hom e Phone servic e in Fergus and Elor a bec ause w e know it truly i s what
our customers are l ooking for: fl exi bility, choic e and competitive price,” says Anne Isabelle Rous sy, Vice
President Mark eting and Product Development, Cogeco Cable Canada.
Flexible packages
Cogeco offers three different flexible packages to answer its customers’ varied and unique needs: The
Basic Line, which includes unlimited local calling; the Select package which includes unlimited local
calling, the choice of two calling features and 100 long distance minutes in Canada and the U.S; and
the Freedom package, which i ncludes unlimited local calling, the five most popular calling features an d
unlimited long di stance calling in Canada and the U.S.
Useful features
Customers can person alize any package by adding the c onvenient calling features they want, such as :
Voice mail, call display, call waiting, visual call waiting, call forwarding, three-way calling, call blocking,
anonymous call reject, call screen, etc. Furthermore, all packages offer the possibility to make direct
international calls
in over 225 countries at competitive rates.
Basic Line
Select Package
Freedom Package
Local calls
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Long distance call s
(Canada and the
United States)
$0.07 per minute
First 100 minutes
included, $0.07 per
minute for each
additional minute **
Unlimited
Calling features
À la carte
Choice of two cal l ing
features
The five most popular
calling features
International calls
Direct access to over
225 countries at
competitive pri ces
Direct access to over
225 countries at
competitive pri ces
Direct access to over
225 countries at
competitive pri ces
Prices*
Starting at $13.99
Starting at $28.99
Starting at $42.99
* The Home Phone Basic Line, Select and Freedom package offers include a promotional monthly credit of $10.00 for
the first 1 2 months. After the prom otional period of 12 months, the then current standard rate will apply. To qualify for this
offer, customers must subscribe to at least two services, including Digital TV or Internet. Limited time offer. Available
where technology permits. C ertain conditions appl y.
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**To subscribe to the Select package and get the 100 long-distance minutes included, the customer must subscribe to
Cogeco long-distance services. Regular long distance rates for Canada and the United States (presently $0.07/minute)
apply after the first 100 minutes.
Visit www.cogeco.ca for more information on the new Cogeco Home Phone.
ABOUT COGECO CABLE CANADA
Cogeco Cable Canada regroups the Canadian cable operations of Cogeco Cable Inc.
(
www.cogeco.ca). Cogeco Cable Canada is the second largest cable operator in Ontario and
Quebec in terms of the number of Basic Cable service customers served. Cogeco Cable Inc. is a
telecommunications corporation and is the 11th largest hybrid fibre coaxial cable operator in North
America operating in Canada under the Cogeco Cable brand name in Quebec and Ontario, and in
the United States through its subsidiary Atlantic Broadband in Western Pennsylvania, South
Florida, Maryland, Delaware and South Carolina. Its two-way broadband cable networks provide
to its residential and small business customers Analogue and Digital Television, High Speed
Internet («HSI») and Telephony services. Through its subsidiaries Cogeco Data Services and
PEER 1 Hosting, Cogeco Cable Inc. provides its commercial customers a suite of IT hosting,
information and communications technology services (Data Centre, Co-location, Managed Hosting,
Cloud Infrastructure and Connectivity), with 23 data centres, extensive fibre networks in Montreal
and Toronto as well as points-of-presence in North America and Europe. Cogeco Cable Inc.’s
subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CCA).
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Information: Marina Brzeski
Director, Corporate Communications
(514) 764-4613
marina.brzeski@cogeco.com