Mountain Cablevision
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| Company type | Private Company |
|---|---|
| Industrie | Media and Communications |
| Gegründet | Hamilton, Ontario (1959, as General Co-ax Services, Ltd.) |
| Hauptsitz | Hamilton, Greater Toronto Area, Niagara Region |
| Produkte | Cable TV, Internet, Telecommunications, Broadcasting |
| Website | Mountain Cablevision Official Website |
Mountain Cable is one of three cable television service providers for the city of Hamilton, Ontario and its surrounding area. The other two providers are Cogeco and Source Cable (formerly known as Southmount Cable). Each company has a monopoly in a specific part of the city of Hamilton; Mountain Cable serves the Hamilton Mountain area and Haldimand County.
History
Mountain Cable's history travels all the way back to the year 1959. The company was founded as "General Co-axial Services, Limited", and specialized in installing Master Antenna systems on Apartment buildings, hotels, and resorts.
In that same year, The Ontario Housing Corporation (which designed the Buchanan Park subdivision on Hamilton Mountain) was surveying the possibility of building a whole housing project with no above-ground utilities (placing them all underground to improve safety and reliability during storms). The neighbourhood's homeowners approached the company to have General Co-axial Services install a CATV system with the intention of an alternative to bulky and somewhat unsightly roof-top antennas. The homeowners also asked the company to lay the first neighbourhood-wide underground utility lines. The neighbourhood would become the first housing development in all of Canada that would have all of its utilities placed underground, with no utility poles other than street lights.
Within two years, over three quarters of the homes in the subdivision were linked to the CATV system, and the roof-top antennas (which were considered eyesores) were rendered inferior and obsolete to the newly installed CATV system, which provided superior delivery of consistent and reliable television station signals.
Since these early days, the company has since changed its name to Mountain Cable, and has expanded greatly in size from offering just 12 channels to 400 customers, to offering more than 230 channels to over 40,000 customers in Hamilton, Mount Hope, Binbrook, Byng, Caledonia, Cayuga, Hagersville, Dunnville and Jarvis.
Services
In addition to their cable television services, Mountain Cable also offers digital phone and high-speed internet services.
Cable
- Basic Cable (Analog + Digital)
- Cable Plus (Analog + Digital)
- Choice TV (Analog + Digital)
- 38 Digital Music Channels
- Interactive program guide (I-Guide by Prevue)
- 22 Free Timeshifting Channels (Included with Digital Choice TV)
- 29 HDTV Channels
- 15 PPV Channels
- 7 Theme Packages
Mountain plans to offer Video on Demand services starting September 1st.
Digital Terminals: DCT 700, DCT 2000 Series, Pace Standard Definition PVR, Pace 775 HD, DCT 6200/6416
Internet
Mountain Cablevision's Express High Speed internet offering is rated at 5mbps Download and 384 kbps Upload.Mountain also offers a high speed lite service(Express Lite) as an alternative to dialup.
Included with service
- 5 Email Addresses.
- 5 MB of personal web space.
- Free Virus Guard and Spam Guard.
Digital Telephone
Mountain Cablevision uses their Hybrid_fibre_coax network carry your voice digitally back to their Network_Operations_Center where your voice is then passed off seamlessly to the public telephone network.
Mountain has backed-up the power source so that phone service will work in a power outage.
Plan Details
- $24.99 per month when bundled with cable TV or internet.
- Free Voicemail Call Waiting & Call Display.
Long Distance Packages
- 100 Minute plan - $4.99
- 300 Minute plan – $9.99
- 1000 Minute plan - $19.99
More details are available at http://www.mountaincable.net/index.php?phone_plan_details
The local cable television station "Cable 14" is also carried on Mountain.