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Cogeco Cable Inc. 2003
Profile
Cogeco Cable is a cable television company with shares listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Cogeco Cable is evolving into one of Canada’s major telecommunications companies,
by building on its cable distribution base with the offering of analog, digital and high-speed
Internet services.
Cogeco Cable provides 1,188,369 revenue generating units to the 1,397,486 households
passed by its cable network in the territories it serves. It is the second largest cable system
operator in both Ontario and Québec and the fourth largest in Canada.
Cogeco Cable focuses its attention on the satisfaction of customers’ varied electronic
communication needs by investing in state-of-the-art broadband network facilities, delivering a
wide range of services over these facilities with great speed and reliability at attractive prices,
and striving to provide both superior customer care and growing profitability.
1Financial Highlights
2Message to Shareholders
6Management’s Discussion and Analysis
23 Consolidated Financial Statements
40 Ten-Year Financial Highlights
42 Investor Information
43 Customer Statistics
44 Board of Directors and Corporate Management
45 Operations and Corporate Information
Contents
Glossary
Digital services :
digital video
services.
HSI : high-speed
Internet services.
HSI Lite : high-
speed Internet
product with
download speed
of up to 150 Kbps.
HSI Pro : high-
speed Internet
product with
download speed
of up to 5 Mbps.
HSI Standard :
high-speed Internet
product with
download speed
of up to 3 Mbps.
RGU (revenue
generating units) :
includes basic service,
HSI service and digital
service customers.
VOD : video-
on-demand
services.