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- Full-service Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) in
Western Canada and Eastern Quebec offering local,
long distance, data, Internet and other services to businesses
and consumers
- Provides data, IP and voice solutions to business customers
across Canada
- 5.0 million network access lines across Canada
- With 670,000 Internet subscribers:
- we are the second largest Internet Service Provider (ISP)
in Western Canada and third largest ISP in Canada
- we grew high-speed Internet subscribers by 157%
to 215,000
- In Central Canada, we focus on the small and medium
business market and selectively on large corporate business:
- won an 8-year contract worth up to $200 million with the
Government of Canada to provide a managed data
network across the country
- Opened two world-class intelligent Internet Data Centres (IDCs)
in Toronto and Calgary – became the leading managed data
hosting provider in Canada with our national network of IDCs
- Lit 8,900-kilometre national IP backbone and fibre network with
diversity routing and connectivity into the U.S., enabling us to
provide bandwidth solutions from private line to managed
wavelength services
- Partnered with Microsoft* to become the first Canadian
telecommunications company to offer high-quality,
simple-to-use Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services
- Maintained ILEC local and long distance market shares of
98% and 79% respectively
- Focused on integrated bundles of service; sold 915,000
residential bundles, a 20% increase from 2000
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