Cogeco Cable extends its Home Phone service in Ontario
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
Cogeco Cable extends its Home Phone service in Ontario
Montréal, February 13, 2012 – Cogeco Cable announce today that it has proceeded through January
to the launch of the Home Phone ser vice in nine new cities, all located in Ontario, including : Camlachie,
Harrow, Colchester, Blenheim, Ridgetown, Dresden, Port Sydney, Ancaster and Montpellier Trail. This
way, all customers from these regions can already subscribe to Cogeco’s Home Phone service starting
at only $14.99 per month*.
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 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 servic e) and customers start saving – with no change to
their current phone number.
“We’re excited to launch our Home Phone service in these 9 Ontario cities because we know it truly is
what our customers are looking for: flexibility, choice and competitive price”, says Ron Perrotta, Vice-
President, Marketing and Strategic Planning at Cogeco Cable.
Flexible packages
Cogeco offers three different, flexible packages to answer its customers’ varied and unique needs: the
Basic Line package, which includes unlimited local calling, the Select, which includes unlimited local
calling, the choice of two calling features and 100 long distance minutes in Canada an d the U.S and the
Freedom, 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 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, 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 calls
(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 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 Starting at $14.99* Starting at $27.99* Starting at $42.99*
Visit www.cogeco.ca for more information on the new Cogeco Home Phone.
* Promotional rate for a 12-m onth period when combined with othe r Cogeco services.
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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. After the 100 minutes included, the then current long-distance
rate per minute (presently $0.07) will apply.
ABOUT COGECO CABLE
Cogeco Cable (www.cogeco.ca) 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, data storage and security, and co-location services and
other advanced communication solutions. Cogeco Cable’s subordinate voting shares are listed on
the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CCA).
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Information: Nicole Tardif
Director, Corporate Communications
Tel: 514 764-4700