Iristel takes on rival NorthwesTel to offer local phone service in the North

YELLOWKNIFE - For the first time ever, consumers and businesses in Yellowknife, Whitehorse and Inuvik are being given a choice for local phone service. Iristel says they can now keep their existing phone numbers and move to its competing phone network for significantly less than they are paying currently for local phone service by using VoIP technology. It is also planning to offer advanced Internet-based services for smaller communities in 2013 "Our network is fired up, connected to the south and ready to go for people in Canada's North who are tired of high monopoly prices for landline phone service,"...