Videotron Posts Another Quarter of Growth for Each of its Four Products

MONTREAL, QUEBEC , cable telephone and wireless telephone service. Videotron's multi-product bundles have continued to prove attractive in 2008, with over 50% of Videotron customers now subscribed to two or more services.

Quebecor Media's application accepted

In March 2008, Quebecor Media Inc. filed an application to bid as a new market entrant in the Advanced Wireless Services spectrum auction. On March 31, 2008, Industry Canada confirmed that the application had been accepted. The spectrum auction could enable Videotron to build its own wireless network to serve the Quebec market. Videotron would then be equipped to increase competition in a market where Canada lags behind other countries in technology, penetration rate and consumer pricing.

Videotron Ltd. (www.videotron.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Quebecor Media Inc., is an integrated communications company engaged in cable television, interactive multimedia development, Internet access services, cable telephony and wireless telephone service. Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its illico interactive television system and its broadband network, which supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital cable television, and other services. As of March 31, 2008, Videotron was serving 1,652,200 cable television customers in Quebec, including 802,800 illico Digital TV subscribers. Videotron is the Quebec leader in high-speed Internet access, with 965,300 subscribers to its cable modem service. As of March 31, 2008, Videotron had activated 50,600 phones on its wireless telephone service and was providing cable telephone service to nearly 691,600 Quebec households and organizations.

Contacts: Videotron Ltd. Marc Labelle Director, Corporate Communications 514 380-4458 Mobile: 514 512-4458

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