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Iristel readying TV launch

However, content deals are something of a struggleTORONTO – Iristel plays in many sandboxes in Canadian telecom.As a national voice over IP CLEC, it’s a wholesale voice and broadband data supplier (with clients such as TekSavvy, Distributel and Magic Jack). It’s a retail voice and broadband provider to residential and business customers and also a wireless provider.However, there has been a missing component to the bundle it offers retail customers: Television. Soon, however, that missing bit will be ready for launch, as soon as it can get more content deals signed, that is.The look and feel of Iristel TV’s user...