PRIMUS Canada Partners with Glentel to Distribute TalkBroadband(R).TORONTO -- PRIMUS Telecommunications Canada Inc. (PRIMUS Canada Primus Canada is a Canadian telecommunications company. Primus operates as a CLEC — buying services at wholesale rates and reselling them to consumers. The company offers long distance, wireless, VoIP, DSL Internet, and POTS to both the residential and business markets. ) and Glentel Inc. announced today that PRIMUS's TalkBroadband(R) home phone service, Canada's first Voice Over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) phone service, is now available in Glentel's retail mall locations across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET. . Consumers can subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; PRIMUS Canada's TalkBroadband phone service by visiting Glentel's WirelessWave, The Telephone Booth, or La Cabine Telephonique locations. Consumers can purchase PRIMUS Canada's start-up kit for only $19.95, which includes the first three months of service free, with no installation fee and no mandatory purchase of the VoIP gateway hardware. The offer also includes a wide selection of features such as voice mail, Call Waiting, Call Display, 5-Way Calling and Caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. Block. Customers who choose to purchase the gateway will save $4 per month off their monthly bill following the three-month trial period. "PRIMUS Canada is dedicated to providing Canadians with leading-edge services, features, and greater savings for home phone services," said Rob Warden Rob Warden is the executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law. An award winning legal affairs journalist, he is the co-author with David Protess of A Promise of Justice (Hyperion, 1998) and , Vice President, Marketing, Residential Services, PRIMUS Canada. "Teaming up with Glentel, a trusted communications supplier, makes our TalkBroadband Home Phone service available to more Canadians searching for quality, value, enhanced features and an alternative to traditional phone service." TalkBroadband service is a leading-edge technology that transforms High Speed Internet Service into a local telephone connection simply and securely. The Internet-based phone service results in significant savings of up to 65 percent on home phone bills. Customers can choose their own area codes, make free worldwide calls to other TalkBroadband lines, and service can be accessed anywhere there is a High Speed Internet connection. TalkBroadband subscribers can also receive access to a web portal that allows them to manage calls and service features online, at no extra cost. To name just a few of the options, subscribers can view all call information online, access voicemail online, and set up voicemail notification to e-mail. About Glentel (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :GLN Gln glutamine. ) Glentel Inc. is an international wireless solutions provider operating more than 160 corporate locations in Canada through its retail and business divisions. Its business division provides integrated wireless solutions for business, industry, and government. Its retail division, doing business as WirelessWave, The Telephone Booth, and La Cabine Telephonique, provides personal voice and data communications products and services in major retail malls in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. TSX Stock Symbol: GLN. Further company information is available at the company's website www.glentel.com. About PRIMUS Canada PRIMUS Telecommunications Canada Inc. is the largest alternative communications carrier in Canada, with over 1,000,000 customers. The Company offers facilities-based voice, data, e-commerce, Web hosting, VOIP and Internet services utilizing ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line 2+ technology. As a leading Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. in Canada, PRIMUS Canada has over 80,000 Internet subscribers served by a national network of Internet points-of-presence (POPs) for dedicated and dial-up access. PRIMUS Canada also offers local services to businesses, bundling them with its long distance and Internet services. The Company has a fully redundant and diverse SONET network across Canada, extending from Quebec City to Victoria. PRIMUS Canada's national network consists of nationwide switches with international connectivity through its parent company's global network, ATM and IP nodes, and colocation facilities at major cities across the country. These network elements provide an integrated and converged backbone for all of PRIMUS Canada's voice, data, VOIP, Internet private line and bundled services. The local colocation network covers over three million households and businesses in Canada utilizing next generation ADSL2+ technology, delivering download speeds of up to 22 Mbps. PRIMUS Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLean, Virginia-based PRIMUS Telecommunications Group, Incorporated (Nasdaq:PRTL PRTL Post-Registration Training and Learning ). PRIMUS Canada news and information are available at the Company's Web site at www.primustel.ca. |
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