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Rogers Cable is Canada's leading provider of cable television services as well as high-speed Internet access and competitive telephony services, and is also a facilities-based telecommunications provider to businesses. Its business consists of the following three segments:
The Cable Operations segment has 2.3 million basic cable subscribers at December 31, 2007, representing approximately 30% of basic cable subscribers in Canada. At December 31, 2007, it provided digital cable services to approximately 1.4 million households and high-speed Internet service to approximately 1.5 million residential subscribers. Through Rogers Home Phone, it offers local telephone and long-distance services to residential customers with both voice-over-cable and circuit-switched technologies and had almost 1.0 million subscriber lines at December 31, 2007.
The RBS segment offers local and long-distance telephone, enhanced voice and data services, and IP access to Canadian businesses and governments, as well as making some of these offerings available on a wholesale basis to other telecommunications providers. At December 31, 2007, there were 237,000 local line equivalents and 35,000 broadband data circuits. Cable is increasingly focusing its business segment sales efforts on the smaller business portion of the market within its traditional cable television footprint, where it is able to provision and serve customers with voice and data telephony services provisioned over its own infrastructure.
The Rogers Retail segment operates a retail distribution chain that offers Rogers branded home entertainment and wireless products and services. There were 465 stores at December 31, 2007, including approximately 170 stores acquired in January 2007 from Wireless, many of which provide customers with the ability to purchase any of Rogers’ primary services (cable television, Internet, cable telephony and wireless), to pay their Rogers bills, and to pick up or return Rogers digital and Internet equipment. It also offers digital video disc (“DVD”) and video game sales and rentals through Canada’s second largest chain of video rental stores.
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