Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated, based in McLean, Virginia. Primus Canada provides tradition and Internet Protocol voice, data, mobile services, broadband Internet, collocation, hosting and outsourced management services to business and residential customers.

Primus Canada was founded in 1997 and has offices and data centres in Ottawa, Toronto, London, Edmonton and Vancouver. The eight data centres, operating under the name BLACKIRON Data, provide colocation, cloud computing, managed services, storage, backup and other services.

For residential customers, Primus Canada offers low cost home phone services, high speed Internet services, wireless plans for smartphones and feature phones, and long distance plans for home phones and wireless phones. Primus Canada also offers bundles comprising home phone, long distance and unlimited high speed Internet.

Home phone customers have the choice between using a regular telephone line for services or setting up their services through a high speed Internet connection. Customers can also enjoy a wide array of calling features ranging from call display and call waiting to voice mail, and can access a convenient online portal to manage their accounts.

Wireless services are provided over a 4G HSPA+ network with coast-to-coast coverage. Primus Canada also offers customers an array of convenient wireless phone accessories to enhance phone functionality.

High speed Internet services are delivered to customers over dedicated Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) utilizing their telephone lines and regular or wireless modems.

Primus Business Services deliver enterprise-level voice, internet and data technology services to Canadian businesses of all sizes. Services come with dedicated 24/7 technical and customer support and are delivered utilizing a modern telecommunications infrastructure which is continuously updated to keep pace with the industry.

Small businesses can switch their existing wireline connection to Primus Canada and keep their number, while enjoying additional features such as call waiting and call forwarding. Customers can customize their services by adding services such as voice mail, high speed Internet and North America-wide long distance. For business locations requiring one or two lines, Primus Canada provides Business VoIP services. These provide cost-effective and simple communications solutions by turning the high speed Internet connection into a business line.

Larger business customers needing connectivity between branch office systems and the central office can benefit from the efficiencies and ease-of-use of Primus Canada's ISDN PRI service. For the ultimate in business communications, Primus Business Solutions offers SIP Trunking with unlimited channels to businesses with data network access.

Primus Business Services offers hosted services to customers who don't want to acquire and manage their own private branch exchanges (PBX). Hosted PBX is a scalable, fully-managed cloud-based solution for businesses of all sizes. Bundled with high speed Internet services, Hosted PBX is a complete, cost-effective communications solution. To provide a fuller client contact experience, Primus Business Services offers its Hosted Call Centre solution, which is provided over an easy-to-use Internet interface with a dashboard for monitoring call activity.

Primus Business Services rounds out its business phone offerings with a choice of add-on services comprising toll-free numbers, business conferencing, business calling cards, global long distance, and long distance business wireless telephony.

Business Internet services are offered via dedicated high speed lines with symmetrical bandwidth, either through traditional T1 lines or faster Ethernet connections. For maximum speed and signal quality, Primus Business Services offers its fibre infrastructure to customers.

Primus Business Services offers a fast, reliable, secure Web hosting solution for business websites featuring multiple redundancy backbone connections and professional 24/7 support services.

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