I’ve had such a great response to my earlier post, VOIP Services for Canadians, I thought it worthwhile posting again with a number of additions.

All these companies offer Canadian area codes. Some are US companies so you pay in US dollars. Testimonials (good or bad) about any of these folks are welcome:

http://www.unlimitel.ca/
www.callcentric.com/
http://www.voxbone.com/
http://www.vbuzzer.com/
www.broadvoxdirect.com/
http://www.hip.ca/
http://www.internationalnumber.com/
http://www.atlasvoice.com/
http://www.inphonex.com/
http://www.les.net/
http://www.iax.cc/
http://www.axvoice.com/
http://www.ravon.ca/
http://www.iristel.ca/
http://www.netfone.ca/
http://www.nuovotel.com/
http://www.savytel.ca/

A friend of mine recently asked about VOIP services in Canada. Like me, he started with Vonage but has decided to look elsewhere. We both live in Vancouver and want a local 604 number. I discovered that at this point, there aren’t a lot of options. Thus began a search for services that support Canadian area codes.

I found that Mark Evans, a Canadian technology blogger, has a nice list. I’ve added a few names to it here:

• Shaw Digital Phone: BC & Alberta (select areas)
• Rogers Home Phone: BC (select areas), Ontario, probably elsewhere but they make it hard to find out. You have to enter your postal code before they’ll tell you.
• Primus TalkBroadband: Canada-wide, select cities
• Vonage: Canada-wide and the only one I think that includes the adaptor for free
• Zingotel: BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec
• Bell DigitalVoice: Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton
• babyTEL: BC, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia
• Telehop Broadtalk: Ontario
• AOL Canada TotalTalk: BC, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia
• Cogeco: Ontario,Quebec
• SpectraVoice: Ontario, Quebec
• Videotron: Quebec
• unitz.ca: Canada-wide
• DigitalVoice: BC, Alberta

Added Sept. 25:

• Unlimitel: BC, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec