For all of you who were waiting for this announcement, the wait is over. It’s official Call Centric announced on July the 3rd they have available numbers in all Canadian provinces and territories. In addition Call Centric announced they are waiving the number portability fee for Canadian customers, which is a $25 waived. So if you had been thinking to...
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Canada tops the list in unfair Telecom rates
Canadians are well aware that the country is # in…. sometimes having very unfair mobile calling rates. How can we spend as little as possible on mobile calling charges each month – and hack your household mobile call spending? This topic is especially timely, given how Canada’s mobile calling rates are one of the world’s worst. This may...
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Troubleshooting VoIP Problems: Packet Delay
There are a number of issues arising from network connections that affect the VoIP user experience. Of these, packet delay has the most perceptible effect on user experience. Delays result in high latency – defined as the amount of time a packet takes to reach its destination – which then causes echo and/ or feedback. Voice call quality is...
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VoIP Spear: Leading the Way to Better VoIP
One of the best things to happen to telecommunications is VoIP. In the span of less than a decade, it has overtaken mobile and traditional telephony as the preferred means of communication. It owes to the technologies that support it, such as internet connectivity, as well as the gadgets and devices that enable its usage. This dependency on other...
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Free VoIP Calling
We often get asked how and where we can find ‘free’ VoIP calling? While there are services that offer FREE calling; there’s always a catch. More often than not there’s a catch; either offer is tied-up to ads, or the provider is re-selling or sharing your personal information with ‘partners’ meaning you may start to get more spam emails and even...
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Xerox and babyTEL keeping Fax alive
In this time and age, one has to wonder who is using faxes? Well, there’s plenty of use in the business-2-business world. For example, Realtors, mortgage brokers, and insurance brokers keep using them. That may be enough to keep Montreal based babyTEL established a longterm partnership with Xerox Canada to bring internet faxing to those customers that...
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How to Stop Unwanted Phone Calls in Canada
Believe that by now we all been there, with those 2 pm Telemarketing calls. When we used to have a non-VoIP landline we would get up to 10 unwanted calls a day. So long for the do-not-call list..! Now fast-forward to today and we are using a VoIP based Phone landline (Phone Power) one of the very neat features is called Block List. Let me tell you...
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Cheap Long Distance Calls to China
VoIP technology makes it easier than ever before to make international long distance calls to China. Today we’ll compare the rates of some of our long-distance and residential providers against the traditional Canadian telecom providers. Provider Landline Rate Mobile Rate Connection Fee Localphone 1.2 cents 1.2 cents $0 Skype 1.9...
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Using Virtual Numbers (VoIP’s Virtuosity)
One of the things very common to see as part of a Provider’s offer nowadays is Virtual Numbers. Though what are these numbers and why they are called ‘virtual’? Well, these are called ‘Virtual’ (or Extra) Numbers because they are not directly associated with a real telephone line. In fact, Virtual Numbers are forwarded to ring to some other...
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Fongo bids for Wind Mobile Canada
Once upon a time the wireless startup known as Wind Mobile, know Freedom Mobile, was about to change hands. Fongo, part of Fibernetics group HQ in Cambridge ON, released at the time a press released detailing a bid, an attempt more than anything serious. Fongo Inc. offers is to pay $1 and swap 49 percent of its equity for control of the start-up wireless...