{"id":272,"date":"2009-04-02T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2009-04-02T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T06:14:00","slug":"continuing-to-raise-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Continuing to raise the bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"Videotron\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gstconferences.com\/gst\/logos\/sponsors_128_videotron.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/>Videotron <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/press-release\/Videotron-Ltd-TSX-QBR.A-969258.html\">announced<\/a> that it is extending its TGV30 and TGV50 ultra-high speed internet services to additional areas in the greater Montr\u00e9al viscinity. More than 400,000 households and businesses in 70 municipalities around Montr\u00e9al will gain access to the 30 Mbps and 50 Mbps services.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, more than 900,000 addresses in more than 100 municipalities will have access to Videotron&#8217;s industry leading speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Videotron is also increasing the download caps for these services: for TGV30, residential customers will have a cap of 70 GB while business subscribers will have a 150 GB cap; and, for TGV50, the caps are 100 GB (residential) and 200 GB (business).<\/p>\n<p>The press release quotes newly promoted EVP, Strategy and Market Development, Manon Brouillette:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 85%; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;\"><p>Videotron continues to lead the way in Internet services with an advantageous offering: large download capacity at lightning speed for a competitive price<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The services are priced at: TGV30 for $64.95 ($119.95 business) and TGV50 for $79.95 ($149.95 business).<\/p>\n<p>Evidence of market forces at work, driving investment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:78%;\">Technorati Tags:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Videotron\" rel=\"tag\">Videotron<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/broadband\" rel=\"tag\">broadband<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videotron announced that it is extending its TGV30 and TGV50 ultra-high speed internet services to additional areas in the greater Montr\u00e9al viscinity. More than 400,000 households and businesses in 70 municipalities around Montr\u00e9al will gain access to the 30 Mbps and 50 Mbps services. Overall, more than 900,000 addresses in more than 100 municipalities will &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=272\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continuing to raise the bar<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Continuing to raise the bar &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Videotron announced that it is extending its TGV30 and TGV50 ultra-high speed internet services to additional areas in the greater Montr\u00e9al viscinity. &#8226; 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