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Videotron Taps Nortel to Upgrade Network
By Mark Evans | September 26, 2006
Nortel will provide Videotron Ltee, Canada’s third-largest cableco, with softswitches and media gateways so its can offer IP-based services as video calling and unified messaging while expanding the reach and features of its popular VoIP service. Videotron’s cable telephone service has attracted 283,000 customers since it was launched in February 2005 - most of them coming from Bell Canada. “Demand for Videotron’s cable telephone service has been strong,” said Daniel Proulx, senior vice-president, engineering with Videotron. “With Nortel’s proven VoIP solutions and SIP multimedia portfolio, we are confident we can meet current and future needs of our customers as we expand our network to make cable telephone services available to homes and businesses throughout our service area in the province of Quebec.” (Source: Nortel)
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