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Bell swings back at Videotron, launching VOIP in Montreal


MONTREAL – Bell Digital Voice is now available in the Greater Montreal Area, the company announced this morning.

Already offered in Toronto for $40 a month, the service is being progressively rolled out across Québec and Ontario.

In Montreal, the offer is $35 a month. Bell has faced significant pressure in Montreal with Videotron’s $16 a month residential telephony offer. The MSO said in August that it had surpassed 75,000 customers and were adding 4,000 a week, which means the company is over or nearly 100,000 VOIP subscribers, most of which would be telephony customers taken from Bell.

As reported by cartt.ca, Bell was only recently granted the ability to price differently in different markets, from the CRTC.

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