Cogeco Cable Is Pleased That the Supreme Court Has Accepted to Hear its Appeal on the Compensation Regime

MONTREAL, QUEBEC — Cogeco Cable Inc. expressed its satisfaction that the Supreme Court of Canada has accepted to hear its appeal concerning the jurisdiction of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to impose a compensation regime in favour of private television stations whose signals are available free over-the-air and redistributed via cable and satellite.

The second largest cable operator in Ontario

Cogeco Cable is the second largest cable operator in Ontario, Quebec and Portugal, in terms of the number of Basic Cable service clients served. Through its two-way broadband cable networks, Cogeco Cable provides its residential clients with Audio, Analogue and Digital Television, as then as HSI and Telephony services. Cogeco Cable as well provides its business clients with data networking, e-business applications, video conferencing, web hosting, Ethernet, private line, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), 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.