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Canadian Independent Telephone Association
The Canadian Independent Telephone Association, now the Canadian Independent Telecommunications Association, is a Canada, nationwide Professional association, association of companies that provide Local telephone service, telephone service within British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, founded in 1905. Active Members List (as of July 2014) * Iristel * Brooke Telecom * Bruce Telecom * CityWest Tel * Cochrane Telecom Service * Coop Tel * Execulink Telecom * Gosfield North Communications * Hay Communications * Huron Telecommunications * La Cie de Telephone de Courcelles * La Compagnie Telephone St-Victor * La Compagnie Telephone Upton * Lansdowne Rural Telephone * Mornington Communications * Nexicom Telecommunications * Nexicom Telephones * North Frontenac Telephone Company * North Renfrew Telephone Company * Ontera * Quadro Communications * Roxborough Telephone Co. Ltd. * Sogetel * TBayTel * Telephone Guevremont * Telephone de St-Ephrem * Tuckersmith Communications * Wightman Telecom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Association
A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) usually seeks to advocacy, further a particular profession, the interests of individuals and organisations engaged in that profession, and the public interest. In the United States, such an association is typically a nonprofit organization, nonprofit business league for tax purposes. Roles The roles of professional associations have been variously defined: "A group, of people in a learned occupation who are entrusted with maintaining control or oversight of the legitimate practice of the occupation;" also a body acting "to safeguard the public interest;" organizations which "represent the interest of the professional practitioners," and so "act to maintain their own privileged and powerful position as a controlling body." Professional associations are ill defined although often have commonality in purpose and activities. In the UK, the Science Council defines a profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Telephone Service
Local telephone service is the provision of telecommunications networks and services within a limited geographic region. Traditionally, local telephone service was provided by small companies based in given cities and towns as opposed to larger, national or international companies. Telephone calls outside of the local area provided for by these companies were patched through long-distance networks that were, until de-regulation, operation mainly by AT&T. Some providers of local services were regional Bell operating companies, but not all local telephone companies were a regional Bell operating company or tied to one at the local level, especially after de-regulation of 1996. After de-regulation, these regional Bell operating companies continued providing the same technical services despite being under a different type of corporate structure. Many communities in the United States had local telephone companies and in rural areas, up until around the early 1980s (perhaps later in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains, and borders the province of Alberta to the east and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north. With an estimated population of 5.3million as of 2022, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria and its largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver is the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada; the 2021 census recorded 2.6million people in Metro Vancouver. The first known human inhabitants of the area settled in British Columbia at least 10,000 years ago. Such groups include the Coast Salish, Tsilhqotʼin, and Haida peoples, among many others. One of the earliest British settlements in the area was Fort Victoria, established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iristel
Iristel is a Canadian provider of telecommunication services that is a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC). The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Markham, Ontario. Iristel has deployed multiple redundant switching facilities and points of presence (PoPs) nationally. Iristel has coverage in all ten provinces, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Background Iristel was established in 1999 by Samer Bishay. The company was granted a carrier license by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission in 2000. Iristel has domestic operator licenses in Algeria, Dominica, and Romania, with an additional 20 locations. Iristel launched its High Definition (HD) VoIP Telephone Service in February 2007. History By May 2007, the company added Domestic and Global SIP Trunking and Hosted PBX to their enterprise VoIP services. In December 2007, Iristel began to offer dual mode Wi-Fi-enabled GSM to mobile phones. In June 2008, Iristel began offering Iristel IP Mobilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Execulink Telecom
Execulink Telecom Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered in Woodstock, Ontario Woodstock is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The city has a population of 40,902 according to the 2016 Canadian census. Woodstock is the seat of Oxford County, at the head of the non-navigable Thames River, approximately 128 km from .... Execulink Telecom was founded in 1904 as ''The Burgessville Telephone Company''. After a number of mergers and renamings, Execulink is now one of the largest telecommunications providers in Ontario. Execulink provides telecommunications services including data, internet, television, mobility and advanced voice features. These services are now available to all levels of industry, including 50,000 business, enterprise, government, and residential customers. Early history The Burgessville Telephone Company was founded in 1904 by Dr. Service, a local medical practitioner. The first line connected the doctor's office to Wm. Kirkpatrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontera
Ontera is a telecommunications company in Ontario, Canada and a subsidiary of Bell Aliant. It provides local telephone service in the Northern Ontario towns of Bear Island, Iroquois Falls, Marten River, Moosonee, Moose Factory and Temagami, and also offers long-distance services in most of area code 705. History Ontera was founded as the Ontario Northland Telecommunications division of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario, in 1902. It was the exclusive provider of long-distance calling services in many rural Northeastern Ontario markets until the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved long-distance competition in 2000. The name was changed to O.N.Tel Inc. in the 1990s, then changed its trading name to O.N.Telcom in 2000, and then renamed to Ontera in 2004. Divestment In April 2014, the Ontario government announced it would sell Ontera to Bell Aliant. According to the Public Accounts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sogetel
Sogetel is a private Canadian telecommunications company founded in 1892. Sogetel is a landline independent telephone company that serves multiple areas, most rural, in Quebec. Sogetel Numérique (9164-3122 Québec Inc.) operates as a competitive local exchange carrier in various communities in Bell territory (Bell Aliant, Bell Canada and Télébec) Services offered * Local telephony * * Cellular phone * Internet service provider * Web hosting Served areas * Centre-du-Québec * Chaudière-Appalaches * Mauricie * Montérégie Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. The ... Subsidiaries * Sogetel Mobilité * Sogetel Interurbain (merged into Sogetel in 2009) * Sogetel Numérique (merged into Sogetel in 2009) ** Sogetel Internet NTIC (merged into Sogetel Numérique in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TBayTel
Tbaytel, formerly the Thunder Bay Telephone Company, is a municipally-owned telecommunications company operating in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and the surrounding area. Tbaytel's services include data, voice, wireless, internet, digital TV and security. Tbaytel claims to have Northern Ontario's largest 4G Network within a 300,000 km2 area providing coverage along major highway corridors from just west of Sault Ste. Marie to the Manitoba border and north to Red Lake and Geraldton to the US border. Tbaytel operates HSPA+ and LTE networks. Presently, Tbaytel is the largest independently owned telecommunications provider in Canada. Tbaytel is wholly owned by the Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay. Tbaytel has paid dividends every year since the late 1990s to The City of Thunder Bay, with an annual dividend of approximately $3 million. Today this annual fixed dividend has increased to $17 million. As of 2017, total dividends paid by Tbaytel to the City of Thunder Bay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stentor Alliance
The Stentor Alliance was a formal alliance of Canada's major telecommunications companies, specifically its incumbent local exchange carriers. It derives its name from the Greek mythological figure Stentor. Formed in 1992 to succeed ''Telecom Canada'' (which was previously known as the ''Trans-Canada Telephone System'', and before that as the ''Telephone Association of Canada''), the alliance comprised the following companies at the time of inception: * Alberta Government Telephones, now Telus * BC Tel, now part of Telus * Bell Canada * Island Telephone Company, now part of Bell Aliant * Manitoba Telephone System, now Manitoba Telecom Services Bell MTS * Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company, now part of Bell Aliant * NBTel, now part of Bell Aliant * Newfoundland Telephone, now part of Bell Aliant * Northwestel (associate member) * Québec Téléphone, now part of Telus (associate member) * SaskTel (Saskatchewan Telecommunications) The Trans-Canada and Telecom Canada al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
