Cogeco launches VOIP; Telus providing PSTN link

MONTREAL - Cogeco Cable today made official its launch of voice over Internet telephony in many of its major service areas. Over the last year, Cogeco Cable has successfully tested its new digital telephone service in the Trois-Rivières area in Québec and in the Burlington/Oakville Ontario corridor. These conclusive trials, as well as the market studies conducted at the same time, have helped to better pinpoint the services and functions that customers want, says the company. In 2001, Cogeco abandoned testing it was doing in the telephony space after spending about $25 million, saying it would wait for the technology...