COGECO CABLE EXTENDS ITS HOME PHONE OFFERING
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
Cogeco Cable extends its Home Phone offering
Montréal, November 17, 2009 – Cogeco Cable has recently extended its Home Phone offering:
the same first-class service with enhanced choice, value and flexibility. Cogeco Cable now offers
three packages tailored to customers’ needs starting at $14.99 a month.* And, Cogeco Home
Phone customers in Québec and Ontario can call over 225 countries direct.
Cogeco Home Phone is three different, flexible packages: Basic Line, which includes unlimited
local calling, Select, which includes unlimited local calling, the choice of two calling features and
100 long distance minutes in Canada and the U.S., and Freedom, which includes unlimited local
calling, the choice of five calling features and unlimited long distance calling in Canada and the
U.S.
Customers can personalize any package 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, call display permanently blocked, do not disturb, and
unlisted name and number.
“Cogeco Home Phone truly is what our customers are looking for: flexibility, choice and
competitive price. Plus, there are no monthly hidden fees for services like 911 or network access
– it’s included. With the holidays around the corner, staying in touch with loved ones is even
easier and more affordable," says Ron Perrotta, Vice-President, Marketing and Strategic Planning
at Cogeco Cable.
Basic Line Select Package Freedom Package
Local calls
Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Long distance calls
(Canada and the
United States,
including Hawaii and
Alaska)
$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 calling
features
Choice of five 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
Starting at $14.99* Starting at $24.99* Starting at $39.99*
* Promotional rate for a 12-month period when combined with other Cogeco services.
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Signing up is easy. Customers simply select one of the three packages plus any additional calling
features they wish. Cogeco’s technical services take it from there, with fast, professional
installation (free of charge when combined with subscription to another Cogeco service) and
customers start saving – with no change to their current phone number.
Visit www.cogeco.ca for more information on the new Cogeco Home Phone.
ABOUT COGECO CABLE
Cogeco Cable (www.cogeco.ca), a telecommunications company offering a diverse range of
services to its customers in Canada and Portugal, is the second largest cable operator in Ontario,
Québec and Portugal, in terms of the number of Basic Cable service customers served. Through
its two-way broadband cable networks, Cogeco Cable provides its residential customers with
Audio, Analogue and Digital Television, as well as HSI and Telephony services. Cogeco Cable
also provides its business customers with data networking, e-business applications, video
conferencing, web hosting, Ethernet, private line, VoIP, HSI, black fibre, data storage and
security, and co-location services and other advanced communication solutions (TSX: CCA).
Cogeco Cable’s subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CCA).
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Information: Marie Carrier
Director, Corporate Communications
Tel: 514 764-4700