Iristel helps Canadian NetTalk customers get back phone service, numbers

MARKHAM, ON - Toronto-area telecom Iristel Inc. is crediting the CRTC and Primus Canada for helping it to restore telephone service to approximately 75,000 Canadian subscribers of American VoIP provider NetTalk.Iristel cut off access to its network to NetTalk on January 15, alleging that the Florida-based reseller owed it more than $2 million for almost two years-worth of unpaid bills. This left thousands of Canadian NetTalk customers without full service and with questions over whether their phone numbers would be lost.The Canadian CLEC said Thursday that NetTalks’s Canadian customers can now receive calls and port their phone numbers to other...