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Cogeco Cable Canada’s Turbo 20, Ultimate 40 and Ultimate 60 High Speed Internet packages now available in Montmagny, Québec

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cogeco Cable Canada’s Turbo 20, Ultimate 40 and Ultimate 60 High Speed
Internet packages now available in Montmagny, Québec
Montréal, January 6, 2014Cogeco Cable Canada (“Cogeco”) announces the launch of
its Turbo 20, Ultimate 40 and Ultimate 60 High Speed Internet (HSI) packages in
Montmagny, Québec, where the majority of residents will be able to benefit from one of the
fastest download speeds at the most affordable price available in the area.
The three packages, powered by DOCSIS 3.0 technology, offer very advantageous speed and
pricing compared to competitors in Cogeco Cable Canada’s footprint. The Turbo 20 package
offers a download speed of up to 20 Mbps and upload speed of up to 2 Mbps and a monthly
data transfer capacity of 125 GB.
The Ultimate 40 package offers speeds of up to 40 Mbps for downlo ads and up to 2 Mbp s for
uploads wit h monthly data transf er capacity of 22 5 GB. F or the Ultimate 60 package, speed is
up to 60 Mbps for dow nloads and 2 Mbps fo r uploads with a monthly data transfer capacity of
325 GB.
“We always strive to offer our customers more flexibility, s peed and choices. Today, the whole
family can use the Internet at the same time for online banking, video gaming, shopping or
for downloading videos or films, and all with the same service. Cogeco’s HSI Turbo 20,
Ultimate 40 and Ultimate 60 packages meet those needs,” declared Anne Isabelle Roussy,
Vice-President, Marketing and Product Development at Cogeco Cable Canada.
Cogeco’s Turbo 20, Ultimate 40 and Ultimate 60 are powered by DOCSIS 3.0, a technology
of data compression that allows a more efficient and economical use of bandwidth. Thus,
Cogeco Cable Canada is in a very goo d position to meet the incr easing bandwidth need at a
very competitive price and to offer access to a higher data rate, a better video configuration
and an increased level of safety.
What’s more, Cogeco includes its full suite of security services for these packages. Rental of
a wireless modem is available at the cost of $2.95 per month. The Turbo 20, Ultimate 40 and
Ultimate 60 packages will continue to be rolled-out gradually throughout Cogeco Cable
Canada’s territory.
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