Shaw Communications, Inc. provides broadband cable television, Internet, digital phone, telecommunications, and satellite direct-to-home (DTH) services in Canada and the United States. Its cable television services include basic cable and extended tiers, digital cable, pay television and pay-per-view, video-on-demand, bundling services, and new video services. The company's digital phone services include local residential line and long distance calling, as well as calling features, including voicemail, call display, call forwarding, three-way calling, call return, and call waiting. It also distributes digital video and audio programming services, through DTH satellite to residences and commercial establishments. In addition, the company engages in uplinking the redistributing television and radio signals via satellite to cable operators and other distributors, and related network services; and providing satellite tracking and messaging services to the Canadian trucking industry, and integration and management of satellite data networks with land-based telecommunications. It offers approximately 430 digital video and audio channels, with a programming line-up that offers various television services, including local over-the-air broadcasters, national networks, specialty channels, U.S. and foreign channels, adult programming, and ethnic services; and owns and leases, directly and indirectly, satellite transponders that receive and amplify digital signals and transmit them to receiving dishes located within the footprint covered by the satellite. As of August 31, 2006, it had 1,306,991 Internet customers; 669,737 digital cable customers; 212,707 digital phone lines; and 869,000 DTH subscribers.

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