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Toronto office buildings offer tenants free dedicated, fibre optic-based Internet services from Epik

TORONTO - Fifteen select office buildings located in Toronto's financial district and uptown in the Yonge/Eglinton neighbourhood can offer their tenants free dedicated, fibre optic-based Internet services thanks to Epik Network's On-Net Building Strategy.Epik, which describes itself one of the first entrants into the hosted VoIP space in Canada, has wired these office buildings, already on their hosted VoIP network, with fibre optics. This allows them to bring in virtually unlimited bandwidth capacity at speeds up to 1 Gbps.Once a tenant signs on for Epik’s voice services for 10 or more users, a cost that the company estimates as between $300...