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You’ve missed one - HIP Communications. I use them and they are superb.

http://www.hip.ca/

I tried VOiP from Primus for about two weeks. The service kept cutting out. So I returned all the gear. Here’s the strange part: Primus had no interest why I was returning the equipment.

Hi …

Just wanted to let you know about Versature, a Canadian VoIP provider for Small Business in Canada. We do have Canada-wide capabilities, including 604 numbers in Vancouver.

Best Regards,

Paul.

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Hello, do you have any ideas regarding voip hardware suppliers for individuals and small business (1-5) in Canada. Companies carrying Linksys and Grandstream? Because of the small quantities buying from the us is usually too expensive because they usually use shipping services that charge too much brokerage. So a Company that ships from Canada to Canada wouldn’t have such problems.

Here’s another one. voipgo.com has an office in the states but it’s a Canadian based comapny.

Love

Here is another, easyofficephone.com. We have a small company in Hamilton, Ontario and we use easy office phone’s voice over ip service with their hosted pbx (phone system) technology. It’s great becase we have an automated attendant and can transfer customers to each other using our voip phones!

Here’s another really good VoIP provider in the Vancouver area that does everything from single hosted solutions for small businesses all the way up to 300-400 seat businesses. The flexibility and ease of use along with the 24/7 support is a really nice change from the old telco’s who make you wait up to 3 weeks just for a service call. Effective, efficient and great prices.

AOL TotalTalk is “discontinued as of October 22, 2006″.

OneConnect is the leading provider of hosted IP Communications in Canada with the most effective and reliable business-class solutions across North America. OneConnect hosts and manages our customer’s telecommunication systems to allow businesses to free up IT resources and increase telecom reliability, costs savings, and increase focus on core competencies. OneConnect’s solution integrates voice, data, Internet, video, collaboration, and conferencing services on a single converged platform.

DirectCanada.com has the Linksys PAP2T-NA, SPA-3102, Aastra phones, etc… at good prices.

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Just don’t use VoipGo. No incoming calls for more than 1 month. Fortunately, I had another number. Besides, it is the worst customer experience I ever had.

No mention of Dolphintel. I’ve seen it advertised but haven’t tried it yet.

Another one that is bargain basement prices and not hard to set up if you are not spooked by technical things…
LES.net costs $0.015/min. for all calls. Comes with voicemail and caller-id and possibly other features. If you want your own phone number (in select cities across Canada) it is $3.50/month. Look under Canadian DID. They also have a flat fee for unlimited calling for $8.88/month. (This is all from memory, so please check to be sure…)

I am using a software phone called X-lite by counterpath.net that works in windows. Or any softphone should be able to be programmed to work with LES.net

I don’t think I have seen anything cheaper than this. And no strings or conditions or loops to jump through.

Peace to All
dLight

You should also take a look at another Canadian VOIP provider, Atlantictelecom.ca
I used to use Vonage, but Atlantic Telecom allow me unlimited USA/Canada & Europe for $19.99 month and no small print. They didnt lock the router either, which is one small gripe i had with Vonage - so im not tied into them in any way.

So far the service has been excellent and for me is great value for money