Videotron Ltee's telecom division, the company has more than 1,000 customers testing its Internet telephony service in Montreal. "The tests are very conclusive (+++), and Videotron with Videotron Telecom are currently poisitioned to become the first major telco to provide IP TEL over a high speed internet network in Canada," a Videotron Telecom executive wrote in a recent e-mail after AOL Canada received plenty of media attention about its new TotalTalk telephony service.
Videotron may be getting close to its Internet telephony if a meeting today with analysts in Toronto is any indication. Rogers has set its VOIP launch date for July 1, 2005 while Shaw Communications will likely go live in the first quarter of next year.