UPDATE: 20 years to the day... Rogers launches VOIP; Call-Net buy approved

TORONTO – Trust Ted Rogers to have a sense of history. Twenty years to the day after his company (which employs a corporate historian) launched wireless telephony in Canada through Rogers Cantel with a phone call between then-Toronto mayor Art Eggleton and then-Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, Rogers Communications is officially getting into the wired voice business through voice over Internet protocol and plain old circuit-switched telephony on Friday, July 1st. But, it’s nothing like the launch of Cantel, or Rogers’ earlier wired telephony attempt, Unitel. The company hits the ground not only running, but in a leadership position. The combination...