Cable Satisfaction International Inc. Service Units Increase by 20.1% in the First Quarter of 2001 in Portugal.Business Editors QUEBEC--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2001 CSII CSII Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion CSII Cancer Surveillance Improvement Initiative CSII Center for Systems Interoperability and Integration (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :CSQ CSQ Certificat de Sélection du Québec (Quebec selection certificate; immigration document) CSQ Carrier Squelch (radio, scanner) CSQ Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire .A.) Cable Satisfaction International Inc. ("Csii")(TSE:CSQ.A.), through its Portuguese subsidiary Cabovisao, announced today that its service units increased during the first quarter of 2001 by 20.1% on a quarterly basis and by 99.0% on an annual basis.
NUMBER OF HOMES PASSED AND NUMBER OF SERVICE UNITS
ON A QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL BASIS
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31-03-01 31-12-00 % + Quarterly 31-03-00 % + Annual
Homes passed 428,350 350,002 22.4% 236,978 80.8%
Service units
Basic
service 110,352 97,018 13.7% 64,497 71.1%
Pay TV 23,675 20,217 17.1% 10,304 129.8%
Internet 10,550 6,120 72.4% 549 1,821.7%
Telephony 5,397 1,520 255.1% - -
Total
of units 149,974 124,875 20.1% 75,350 99.0%
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"The substantial increase in service units during the first quarter of 2001 demonstrates that our activities in Portugal are making significant progress as expected, on both a quarterly and annual basis. In addition, during the first quarter of 2001, we activated the portion of our national fiber opics backbone linking Estarreja and Beja over a distance of more than 645 kilometres. We can therefore distribute our services over a broader territory in this area of the country. Indeed, we recently obtained a license from Instituto das communicacoes de Portugal (IPC (1) (InterProcess Communication) The exchange of data between one program and another either within the same computer or over a network. It implies a protocol that guarantees a response to a request. ) covering the capital city and surrounding region, bringing our number of potential homes to 3,795,000," said Guy Laflamme, President and Chief Executive Officer. Csii builds and operates large bandwidth (750 Mhz) hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC 1. (networking) HFC - Hybrid Fiber Coax. 2. (hardware) HFC - hydrofluorocarbon. ) networks and, through its subsidairy Cabovisao, provides cable television services, high-speed Internet access and telephony in Portugal, where it will also be offering high-speed data transmission services and digital interactive television. The subordinate voting shares Voting Shares Shares that give the stockholder the right to vote on matters of corporate policy making as well as who will compose the members of the board of directors. Notes: Different classes of shares, such as preferred stock, sometimes don't allow for voting rights. of Csii are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. under the symbol CSQ.A. |
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