Quebecor, Videotron’s parent company, announced its Q1 2010 financial results yesterday. As part of the announcement, Pierre Karl Peladeau, Quebecor President and CEO, reaffirmed that the company is on track to launch its new AWS network in summer 2010.
“We are pressing ahead with the build-out of the Advanced Wireless Services (“AWS”) network. Videotron has reached site- and tower-sharing agreements for nearly 90% of the required antenna sites. The equipment has been or is being installed at more than 70% of the sites for which an agreement has been reached and we are planning to launch services on our AWS network in summer 2010.”
Interestingly, the Hamilton Spectator is reporting that Videotron has pushed back the launch to at least the fall. Apparently, Peladeau confirmed the news at a news conference that followed the annual shareholders’ meeting.
“We are quite satisfied with the deployment but it isn’t finished yet,” he said of the network, which the company said is on its final leg of testing.
Source: MobileSyrup.com