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Rogers Cable Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., is Canada's largest cable television service provider with about 2.25 million television customers, and over 930,000 internet subscribers, in southern Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.
History Rogers was one of the first cablesystem operators in Canada, having secured licences covering much of the city of Toronto in the mid-1960s. It grew, particularly during the late 1980s and early 1990s, by buying other operators; the largest such acquisition came with Rogers' 1994 acquisition of Maclean-Hunter, at that time also among the largest cable operators. Canadian Cable Territories Rogers Cable's territories now consist of: most larger communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, virtually the whole of New Brunswick, selected areas of eastern Quebec near the New Brunswick border, and, in Ontario: nearly all of the Toronto area as well as the areas of Ottawa, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, and Barrie. Over the years, and at various times, Rogers has owned all or part of various cable operators serving areas across Canada, including Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Northern Ontario, and the Hamilton area. All of the systems in western Canada have been traded to Shaw Communications in exchange for that company's large majority assets in Ontario and New Brunswick, and many of the others were sold to Cogeco. Due to its size, Rogers has been able to be one of the major innovators in the cable industry, and in the telecommunications industry in general. Its growing digital cable service provides access to technologies such as high definition television, video on demand, interactive television and enhanced television. Rogers also provides broadband Internet access, co-marketed with Yahoo!. The company employs traffic shaping and has been widely critisised for this. Competitors Rogers main competitors include satellite companies Bell ExpressVu and Star Choice. Video Stores Rogers Video, Canada's largest domestically owned chain of video stores, operates as a subsidiary of Rogers Cable. One of its b | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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