« Videotron Ltee’s telecom division, the company has more than 1,000 customers
testing its Internet telephony service in Montreal. ‘The tests are very
conclusive (+++), and Videotron with Videotron Telecom are currently
poisitioned to become the first major telco to provide IP TEL over a high
speed internet network in Canada,’ a Videotron Telecom executive wrote in a
recent e-mail after AOL Canada received plenty of media attention about its
new TotalTalk telephony service.
Videotron may be getting close to its Internet telephony if a meeting today
with analysts in Toronto is any indication. Rogers has set its VOIP launch
date for July 1, 2005 while Shaw Communications will likely go live in the
first quarter of next year. »
A source article would have been nice though.
[Lifted verbatim from Mark Evans.]
Update: More from Mark. I suggest reading it with his article on a possible CRTC poilcy shift and VoIP perspectives in Canada.