Cable Satisfaction International Inc. Service Units Increased by 95,458 or 76,4% Since the Beginning of 2001.

Business Editors

QUEBEC--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2001

Cable Satisfaction International Inc. ("Csii", the "Company")(TSE:CSQ.A.), through its Portuguese subsidiary, Cabovisao, the leader in fixed alternative direct broadband communications and multimedia services in Portugal, today announced that its service units increased 95,458 or 76,4% since the beginning of 2001 and totaled 220,333 at the end of the third quarter 2001.

          Number of homes passed and to number of service units
                     since the beginning of the year

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                09/30/01   06/30/01   12/31/00     First Nine Months
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                                                   Growth   Increase
Homes passed     584,630    530,759    350,002    234,628       67,0%
Service units:
-Basic service   142,222    126,778     97,018     45,204       46,6%
-Pay TV           31,137     26,740     20,217     10,920       54,0%
-Internet         21,664     16,426      6,120     15,544      254,0%
-Telephony        25,310     13,897      1,520     23,790    1 565,5%

Service unit
 total           220,333    183,841    124,875     95,458       76,4%
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Operational highlights

-- Total service units increased by 36,492 in the third quarter of 2001, compared to an increase of 33,867 in the second quarter of 2001 and 25,099 in the first quarter of 2001 and 116,422 since September 30, 2000.

-- With hardly any Internet or Telephony only customers, less than 400, the number of services per subscriber connection additions in the quarter reached 2.32 services per connection. Cumulatively, the number of services per subscriber connection reached 1.54 services per connection as compared to 1.29 at the end of last year.

-- Telephony customers increased 11,413 during the quarter to reach 25,310 at September 30, 2001.

-- Approximately 33% of the telephony customers subscribe to the "triple play" bundle - CATV, high-speed Internet access and telephone services.

-- Last week, the Portugal team reached a new high in service units additions with more than 4,300 service units additions over a period of 7 days including also a new high of more than 800 service units additions in a single day.

In the third quarter of 2001, the management continued to implement the strategy of offering bundled services such as CATV, Pay TV, High speed Internet access and telephone services distributed through its proprietary HFC networks and fiber optic national backbone.

Cabovisao's management team in Portugal continues the growth of service units through the execution of the business plan. The graph below clearly demonstrates that our operations are maintaining an accelerated growth.

Forward-looking Statements

The statements in this press release relating to matters that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, general business and economic conditions, the condition of the financial markets, the ability of Csii to obtain financing on favourable terms and the other risks and uncertainties detailed in the 2000 annual report of Csii in the Management's Discussion and Analysis section.

Csii builds and operates large bandwidth (750 Mhz) hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) networks and, through its subsidiary Cabovisao, provides cable television services, high-speed Internet access, telephony and high-speed data transmission services in Portugal.

The subordinate voting shares of Csii are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol CSQ.A.

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