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Persona to offer VOIP nationally

TORONTO – When national small-market cable operator Persona launches voice in 2007, MTS Allstream will be hauling much of the traffic across its networks. MTS said today it has signed a $30 million contract to supply Persona, Canada's 5th largest national cable and high speed Internet provider, with a Network Resident IP Telephony (NRIPT) solution, enabling it to introduce a voice over IP service to select markets across Canada. Newfoundland-based Persona plans to offer digital phone service to its new and existing customers in selected markets across Canada beginning in 2007. "We are very pleased to be working with MTS...