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35-484: Vidéotron is the fifth-largest wireless carrier in Canada , with nearly 1,700,000 mobile subscribers as of Q2 2022. Vidéotron was established in 1964, under the name "Télécâble Vidéotron Ltée" as northern Montreal's first cable television network. It started with 66 subscribers. André Chagnon served as the company's founding president. From 1966 to 1969, Vidéotron expanded by acquiring several cable networks in many regions of

70-574: A class action suit against Videotron by consumer advocacy group Union des Consommateurs. In September 2013, the court authorized the suit to proceed. Ultimately the Quebec Superior Court rendered a $ 1.2 million judgment in favour of the plaintiffs. More than 400,000 television service subscribers. List of Canadian mobile phone companies As of March 2021, there are over 33 million wireless subscriptions in Canada. Approximately 90% of Canadian mobile phone users subscribe to one of

105-520: A limited area and rely on partnerships with national service providers to connect their customers across Canada. In contrast, MVNOs and resellers do not own spectrum or network infrastructure and are required to lease network capacity from other providers at wholesale rates. While MVNOs have their own facilities to package and support their mobile services, resellers rely on the host network provider to package, market, bill, and deliver mobile services. All wireless service providers in Canada are regulated by

140-432: A mobile service provider. While primary brands, such as Rogers Wireless or Bell Mobility, account for roughly 82% of wireless revenue, extension brands allow wireless service providers to differentiate service offerings and reach broader market segments. Some operators listed below may still function as a separate brand but they no longer own any infrastructure (towers, network, etc.). MAtv MAtv (formerly Vox )

175-429: A partnership with Xceed Contact Centre to outsource some of the call centres to Egypt . On August 14, 2007, Videotron announced starting October 1 they would impose a 100-gigabyte-per-month download / upload limit with a penalty of $ 1.50 per extra gigabyte to their previously unrestricted High-Speed Extreme Internet service, even to existing subscribers. This decision created outrage among its Internet users, and led to

210-535: A secretary, a receptionist and a video library. In 1996, Télé communautaire was renamed TCV. TCV Vidéotron's network in Greater Montreal covers the entire island of Montreal, its North Shore (including Saint-Jérôme, Joliette, Sainte-Thérèse, Repentigny), its South Shore (including Boucherville, Beloeil, Longueuil, Saint- Jean-sur-Richelieu and Châteauguay), Laval and the Vaudreuil region. In 1999, Télé communautaire

245-423: A trial conducted in the fall of 2004. Vidéotron was also the first cable provider in Canada to launch a cable phone service. In July 2008, Videotron ltée and Quebecor acquired spectrum licences for advanced wireless services from an Industry Canada auction at a total cost of $ 554,559,000. The licences cover Quebec for an average of 40 MHz spectrum, Toronto with 10 MHz and south-east Ontario. The network

280-549: Is a Canadian community channels operated by the cable provider Vidéotron within the province of Quebec. In the 1970s, the first community radio stations started to appear in Quebec. These were non-commercial radio stations operated by social groups, in which the population can participate and whose operation is based on a cooperative basis. These types of stations broadcast programs that dealt with social issues that were typically neglected by other radio stations. The 1970s also saw

315-645: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which has been blamed by some for the concentration of wireless service subscribers to only three large national carriers. Though measures have been taken to encourage more competition, critics suggest that more should be done to address the issue, e.g. by mandating wholesale network access for MVNOs. This is a list of mobile network operators , which includes national and regional service providers. Where applicable, this list will also include any subsidiary "extension" brands associated with

350-540: The "Helix" brand, which is based on Comcast 's X1 platform and hardware. Helix serves as a successor to the company's existing Illico TV digital cable platform. Vidéotron's community channels are branded as MAtv . The company offers a subscription video on-demand service known as Illico+ (formerly Club Illico). It has produced original series such as Escouade 99 , Portrait-Robot , The Night Logan Woke Up (La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé) and Mégantic . Vidéotron cable services were once available in

385-774: The East and West territories of the Island of Montreal, while Télécâble Vidéotron serves the South Shore and the North Shore of the city. Each cable operator manages its own community channel and broadcasts programs produced by ACT in its schedule. Cablevision Nationale's community television has a large recording studio, located at 90 Beaubien Street West, in Montreal . She also has a reporter's post that covers various events. Several programs are recorded, both by volunteers and professionals. In addition to

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420-628: The Montreal studio, but also other local programs from ACT in Greater Montreal, the South Shore or other regions of Quebec. In 1987, Vidéotron moved its head office to 300 Viger Avenue (right next to the Champ-de-Mars metro station and Télé communautaire also installs, prominently, on the ground floor. Télé communautaire then has a very large studio, modern equipment and a larger production team. In November 1996, there are 21 employees: directors, cameramen,

455-1026: The Rogers Wireless network as a Vidéotron partner network in order to allow texts to be sent or received, calls to be made and for data to be used across Canada. In 2016, Vidéotron revamped its plans, allowing customers to make unlimited calls, send and receive texts and use data in the United States as well, due to partnerships with US carriers. Vidéotron began beta testing in 2018 for a new mid-range mobile flanker brand , Fizz Mobile , in Quebec and in Ottawa. In 2023, as an aspect of Rogers Communications ' acquisition of Shaw Communications , parent company Quebecor acquired Shaw-owned Freedom Mobile . The major centres are located in Montreal, Longueuil, Quebec City, Gatineau, Joliette, Saguenay and St-Hubert. Vidéotron also has outsourced customer service centres that include Utopia, Gexel Telecom and Atelka. In 2007, Videotron formed

490-591: The United Kingdom, but were acquired and merged into Cable & Wireless plc along with Bell Cablemedia and NYNEX Corporation in 1997. The company also used to operate in Africa and the United States. One of its previous subsidiaries – Videotron Telecom (not to be confused with Videotron Mobile) – was financed by the Carlyle Group . Vidéotron has provided telecommunication services to business and governments since

525-488: The channel, MYtv , to focus on Greater Montreal's anglophone communities. Vidéotron intended on only having one MYtv channel, but was open to carrying it on the lineups of service areas with a sizable anglophone population. In 2014, the group Independent Community TV (ICTV) filed a complaint with the CRTC, alleging that Vidéotron was failing in its responsibility to provide public access and community programming, and demanded that

560-527: The company announced the launch of two new internet access services: Ultimate Speed Internet 30 and Ultimate Speed Internet 50 which deliver speeds of 30 Mbit/s and 50 Mbit/s respectively. In the spring of 2010, Vidéotron launched IllicoWeb, an online television and video-on-demand service. In September, it launched a 3G+ wireless service, with plans to offer a quadruple play service with its existing cable services. On December 30, 2017, assets from Vidéotron G.P. were transferred to Vidéotron Ltée, as

595-586: The company opened the first video rental stores: Le SuperClub Vidéotron . Its first fiber optic network was created between the cities of Quebec and Montreal . On January 24, 1990, Vidéotron launched Vidéoway  [ fr ] terminals in Quebec, the first interactive television (ITV) system in North America. From 1995, the company entered the Internet era and acquired its own Internet portal, InfiniT.com. In 1997, CF Cable TV , which operated primarily on

630-434: The company underwent a corporate reorganization. In September 2018, Vidéotron began beta testing for Fizz, a discount flanker brand on its network. Vidéotron serves 1,830,400 cable television customers, including over 1,517,600 digital cable subscribers. Vidéotron also has more than 1,408,200 high-speed cable Internet subscribers, the most in Quebec. As of September 2013, the company had activated 478,000 mobile phones, and

665-552: The creation of the English-language channel, while setting out a number of new regulatory compliance conditions for MAtv. Rather than establishing a second channel, Vidéotron instead began to carry some English-language programming on MATV in Montreal in September 2015, beginning with the premiere of five new series. The channel has committed to having 20% of its programming be English-language productions, corresponding roughly with

700-402: The emergence of cable television, which allowed the broadcasting of more television programs in certain regions. Community television operates on the same principle as community radio and is hosted by the cable distribution companies, which are governed by a regulation of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The CRTC wanted the cable companies to reinvest in

735-619: The four largest national telecommunication companies ( Rogers Wireless , Telus Mobility , Bell Mobility and Freedom Mobile ) or one of their subsidiary brands. These four mobile network operators own and operate transmission facilities that cover most of the country, though they sometimes share each other's networks in certain geographical regions in order to reduce costs and reach more customers. The remaining 10% of subscribers are served by smaller, regional providers, mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), and resellers. Regional providers own and operate transmission facilities that cover

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770-687: The four small studios serving different areas of Montreal and Laval, (90 Beaubien Street West, one on Beaubien Street East, one on Louvain Street and one on Saint-Elzéar Boulevard in Laval) will replace unique Montreal studio. Each of the studios will be managed by a community animator who will produce the programs while supervising the groups of volunteers who come to propose their projects. All of these programs produced by these small studios, as well as some produced by other community TVs served by Télécâble Vidéotron, are now broadcast on Cable 9. In 1985, Télé communautaire

805-777: The integration of Vidéotron Télécom into Vidéotron Ltée. The services include dark fiber, SONET, ATM, and Ethernet links as well as video circuits used by various Quebec television networks. On July 29, 2004, Vidéotron announced plans to launch a telephone service using VoIP technology by the first half of 2005. Vidéotron launched its cable phone service in late 2004 to compete with Bell Canada and Telus. Deployment of this service started on Montreal's South Shore. By press release on January 24, 2005, Vidéotron announced that 300,000 customers on Montreal's South Shore had access to this service and that deployment would continue all over Quebec throughout 2005. Vidéotron also announced that about 2,500 customers had already subscribed to this service, following

840-502: The license to ICTV. According to the commission, MAtv's schedule comprised just 30 per cent public access programming compared to its license requirement of 45 per cent, and instead was counting shows hosted and produced by professional broadcasters as public access. In addition, the majority of the channel's schedule comprised general interest programming shared by all of Vidéotron's community channels across Quebec, rather than being specifically oriented toward Montreal. The CRTC authorized

875-635: The more traditional community programs, others such as a series that gives voice to the gay community, another that follows amateur hockey games and even a striptease show at midnight in the evening, is off the beaten path and interest people to subscribe to the cable. For its part Télécable Vidéotron owns several small community studios in several municipalities ( Longueuil , Beloeil , Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville , Saint-Hubert , Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu , Mont-Saint-Hilaire , Saint-Jérôme , Laval , Joliette and north of Montreal). In 1980, Télécâble Vidéotron acquired Cablevision Nationale. With this acquisition,

910-526: The opportunity to participate in social change. Autonomous Community Television Corporations (ACT) are therefore born of the will of these communities of citizens to equip themselves with a television communication tool. Some considered this means of communication as a place of creation, others chose to make it a place of debate and local public expression. In 1978, in the Greater Montreal area, Cablevision Nationale (formerly National Cablevision) and CF Cable TV (today CFCF-DT, identified on-air by CTV Montreal )

945-482: The provider be ordered to relinquish control of the service to ICTV so that it could operate a replacement. ICTV cited the heavy involvement of Vidéotron staff in its programming, as well as the networking of programming across all MATV channels (thus failing the requirement for programming to reflect the local community). In February 2015, the CRTC issued a decision on the matter; it agreed with ICTV's position on MAtv's regulatory non-compliance, but declined to transfer

980-505: The province of Quebec. In 1969, the company offered the first pay-per-view service under the name Sélecto-TV . In 1974, a bi-directional network was created in Saint-Jérôme , one of the first in the world at the time. By 1980, Vidéotron acquired Câblevision Nationale to become the largest teledistributor in Quebec. Vidéotron acquired Télé-Métropole in 1986, the largest private French-language television company in North America. In 1989

1015-579: The second-largest shareholder invoked its right to veto the purchase. Quebecor acquired Vidéotron instead, after months of legal proceedings. On May 23, 2001, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the transfer of broadcasting licences from Vidéotron to Quebecor. Video-on-demand and high-definition television became available in 2003. Vidéotron launched their wireless service in August 2006 and, two years later

1050-485: The sharing of the airwaves by offering a service to subscribers via a community channel. In Quebec, in 1973, the provincial government, through the Ministry of Culture and Communications , promoted the establishment of community television stations by financially supporting their basic operation. For example, citizen groups chose to develop such a community media because they believed in freedom of expression, public speaking and

1085-500: The western end of the Island of Montreal, southern Laval and Northern Ontario, was acquired by Vidéotron, further expanding its base. The Northern Ontario division was later sold to Regional Cablesystems. On March 29, 1999, the company launched digital television in Montreal. By the start of the 21st century, Rogers Communications struck an accord with the Chagnon family to purchase Vidéotron. However, citing cultural sovereignty concerns,

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1120-656: Was launched on September 9, 2010. Infrastructure work for a pre-4G HSPA+ wireless network was done over the span of three years, Videotron now having its own cellular communications resources. Vidéotron was the only provider in Canada that sold the short-lived Garmin Nuvifone A50 smartphone . In 2013, Rogers and Vidéotron struck a 20-year deal, enabling Vidéotron to share its network with Rogers Wireless . This network sharing agreement enabled Vidéotron to deploy LTE on its network in Quebec in 2014, in partnership with Rogers. The agreement also enabled Vidéotron customers to use

1155-491: Was modernized and a large studio was established at 3555 Berri Street in Montreal. Located just above the Sherbrooke metro station , this studio offers better accessibility to the community. The team is growing and now consists of six versatile director-coordinators, who also work alternately as assistant directors, cameramen, lighting technicians, depending on the programs recorded. Cable 9 broadcasts not only programs produced in

1190-482: Was providing cable telephone service to nearly 1,281,200 customers. Vidéotron's cable services are available in the greater areas of Montreal , Quebec City , Gatineau , Sherbrooke , Trois-Rivières and Saguenay . Vidéotron also serves areas in eastern Ontario, such as Rockland and the surrounding municipality of Clarence-Rockland , as well as parts of New Brunswick near the Quebec border. Vidéotron offers broadband and IPTV -based digital cable television under

1225-447: Was renamed Canal Vox, then renamed Vox in 2007. Ten of its flagship programs, including The Confident and ICI et là , saw their audience triple. On November 19, 2012, Vox was renamed MAtv with a planned focus on more viewer-produced programming. On September 5, 2013, Vidéotron announced that they filed an application to the CRTC for permission to launch an English-language version of

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