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Cogeco Cable Canada extends its Home Phone Service in Pabos, Chandler and Pabos Mills

PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
Cogeco Cable Canada extends its Home Phone
Service in Pabos, Chandler and Pabos Mills
Montréal, March 19, 2014 Cogeco Cable Canada (« Cogeco ») announces the launch of Cogeco’s
Home Phone service in Quebec’s municipalities of Pabos, Chandler and Pabos Mills. All Cogeco
customers and the majority of the residents from this area can subscribe to Cogeco’s Home Phone
service and enjoy a launch offer at only $9.99 per month
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Cogeco Home Phone is a high quality service that combines choice, value and flexibility. To sign up,
customers simply select one of the three packages available to residents of Pabos, Chandler and
Pabos Mills plus any additional calling features they wish. Cogeco’s technical services take it from
there, with fast, professional installation and customers start saving with no change to their current
phone number.
“We’re excited to launch our Home Phone service in Pabos, Chandler and Pabos Mills because we
know it truly is what our customers are looking for: flexibility, choice and competitive price. In addition,
customers will benefit from highly competitive prices offered to them when they subscribe to all three
services (home phone, digital TV, high speed internet), not to mention the attractive price at only $9.99
per month!” declared Anne Isabelle Roussy, Vice-President, Marketing and Product Development at
Cogeco Cable Canada.
Flexible packages
Cogeco offers three different flexible packages to residents of Pabos, Chandler and Pabos Mills to
answer their varied and unique needs: the Basic Line package, 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 includes unlimited
local calling, the five most popular calling features and unlimited long distance calling in Canada and
the U.S.
Useful features
Customers can then personalize their package of choice by adding the convenient calling features they
want: voice mail, call display, call waiting, visual call waiting, call forwarding, three-way calling, call
blocking, anonymous call reject, call screen, etc. Furthermore, both 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 calls
(Canada and the
United States)
$0.07 per minute First 100 minutes
included, $0.07 per
minute for each
additional minute
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Unlimited
Calling features À la carte Choice of two calling
features
Our 5 most popular
calling features
International calls Direct access to over
225 countries at
competitive prices
Direct access to over
225 countries at
competitive prices
Direct access to over
225 countries at
competitive prices
Prices $9.99
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$16.99
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$31.99
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Visit www.cogeco.ca for more information on the new Cogeco Home Phone.
Available where technology permits. Ce rtain conditions apply. Promotional rates are valid ov er a limited time
period.
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The Basic Line Home Pho ne package offer includes a promotional monthly credit of $5.00 for the first 12
months and a subscription to a free pho ne option for the first 6 months. After the promotional perio d, the
then current standard rate will apply. To qualify for this offer, customers must also subscribe to Digital TV
and/or High Speed Internet.
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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-distan ce services. After the 100 minutes included, the then current long-distance
rate per minute (presently $0.07) will apply.
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The Select and Freedom Home Phone packages offer includes a promotional monthly credi t of $10.00 for
the first 12 months. After the promotional period, the then current standard rate will apply. To qualify for this
offer, customers must al so subscribe to Digital TV and/or High Speed Internet.
ABOUT COGECO CABLE CANADA
Cogeco Cable Canada (www.cogeco.ca
) regroups the Canadian cable operations of Cogeco
Cable Inc. 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 20 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
Tel: (514) 764-4613