MONTREAL – Nearly three months after the launch of its new mobile service, 41,800 new customers had signed up for a Videotron wireless subscription, the company announced late Wednesday.
Growth appears to be accelerating as two months ago, the company had just 8,400 new wireless subs.
In a press release, the company said those customers are running 72,200 handsets on the network, including 50,300 added in the first two months of the quarter (October and November). Videotron wireless is available to those in Greater Montréal, Québec City, Mauricie, Sherbrooke, Bois-Francs, Montérégie and Laurentians regions now have access to advanced mobile services from Videotron.
Since the mobile service launch, Videotron has also expanded the selection of devices available to customers with the addition of three new handsets, the LG dLite, LG Wink and BlackBerry Curve.
On the company’s video side, Videotron had more than 1.8 million basic cable customers, an increase of 6,900 since September 30, 2010. Since ending the third quarter with 1,182,300 illico digital subscribers, Videotron added nearly 22,500 to bring the total to 1,204,800 as of December 3, 2010.
When it comes to broadband, Videotron had 1,246,500 subscribers to its Internet access services as of last Friday, an increase of 12,700 since the end of the previous quarter – and five years after entering the landline phone market, Videotron’s cable telephone service had 1,109,100 residential and business customers as of December 3, 2010, 11,000 more than at the end of the third quarter of 2010.
