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Internet telephony service provider Orbit Canada Inc. of Toronto is planning to ramp up its voice-over-IP (VoIP) network by setting up points-of-presence (POPs) in five more Canadian cities by the end of this month.
The company currently offers its $19.95 monthly bundle of unlimited long distance and Internet services to residential customers in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Ont. and Kingston, Ont.
The company has not named the five new cities in which it will be offering services, but it said it would be in a position to supply 85 to 90 per cent of the Canadian population by the end of this quarter. These forecasts were originally supposed to have been met by the end of 2000.
Orbit CEO Gord McMehen told Network World Canada that his company is also in talks with a major Canadian carrier to begin working on a joint venture that will bring Orbit's services to the business market. Orbit is also...