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{{Infobox company |
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|name = Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. |
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|logo = [[Image:Primus Canada.png]] |
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|foundation = 1997 |
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|location = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada |
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|num_employees = 600 |
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|industry = [[Telecommunications]] |
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|area_served = [[Canada]] <br> |
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|products = [[Hosted PBX]], [[SIP Trunking]], [[Carrier Ethernet]], [[Fibre]], [[VoIP]], [[High-Speed Access]], [[Long-distance calling|Long Distance]], [[Wireless]] |
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|parent =[[Distributel]] |
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|homepage = {{URL|http://primus.ca/}} |
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}} |
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'''Primus Telecommunications Canada, Inc.''' is a telecommunications service provider in [[Canada]], offering consumer and business telecommunications services nationwide. The company was founded in 1997 and grew to over 600 employees in offices across Canada including [[Vancouver]], [[Toronto]], [[Ottawa]], [[London, Ontario|London]] and [[Edmundston]]. It is currently owned by [[Distributel]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/distributel-acquires-primus-bringing-even-greater-value-to-more-canadians-832774722.html |title=Distributel Acquires Primus, Bringing Even Greater Value to More Canadians |last= |first= |date=2021-01-19 |website=www.newswire.ca/ |publisher= |access-date=2022-07-26 |quote=}}</ref> but operated as a separate brand. |
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==Primus Residential Services== |
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Primus provides Canadian households with a range of connectivity options, including high speed internet, home phone, wireless and long distance plans. The company sells these services individually and on a bundled basis. |
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==Primus Business Services== |
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'''Primus Business Services''' is a division of Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. and provides voice and data access solutions to small and medium-sized Canadian businesses. The division offers a variety of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions including [[voice over IP|IP-voice solutions]], hosted phone systems, [[wireless access]], [[carrier ethernet]], business internet and [[IP connectivity access network|IP connectivity solutions]]. |
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==History== |
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===Acquisition of Magma Communications=== |
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In early 2004, Primus Canada acquired Ottawa-based Magma Communications Ltd.,<ref>{{cite press release | title = PRIMUS Canada Acquires Magma, Ottawa's Premier Internet Services Company | publisher = PRIMUS Telecommunications Canada Inc | date = April 15, 2004 | url = http://easyir.marketwire.com/easyir/prssrel.do?easyirid=D12A8EA726C432AF&version=live&prid=412212 | accessdate = October 19, 2009 }}</ref> an ISP with customers based mostly in the Ottawa and Toronto metropolitan areas.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} In 2006, Primus Canada merged Magma's customer databases, services and call centres into its own organization, gradually phasing out the Magma brand.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} |
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===Sale of Primus Canada and Primus US Retail Telecom Assets To York Capital Management=== |
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On Friday, May 10, 2013,<ref>{{cite press release | title = PTGi Sells North America Telecom for US$129 Million to York Capital Management| publisher = PRIMUS Telecommunications Group Inc | date = May 10, 2013| url = http://investors.ptgi.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=67300&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1818216&highlight | accessdate = May 11, 2013}}</ref> Primus Telecommunications Group announced the sale of their North American retail telecommunications operations in the United States and Canada to York Capital Management for about US$129 million. |
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=== Birch Communications, Inc. Purchases Primus Telecommunications === |
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On the 4th of April 2016, [[Birch Communications]], Inc. completed the Canada component of its purchase of select assets and customers of Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. and its affiliates.<ref>{{cite press release | title = Birch Completes Purchase of Primus Telecommunications Assets in Canada | publisher = PRIMUS Telecommunications Canada Inc | date = 2014-04-16 | url = https://primus.ca/index.php/ont_en/news-and-events/primus-news-birch-completes-purchase-of-primus-telecommunications-assets-in-canada/ | accessdate =2022-07-26 }}</ref> [[Birch Communications]] was suqsequently acquired by [[Fusion Communications]]. |
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=== Fusion Connect Sells Primus to Distributel=== |
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Fusion Connect sold Primus Telecommunications to Distributel in January, 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telecomramblings.com/2021/01/distributel-buys-primus-from-fusion-connect/ |title=Distributel Buys Primus from Fusion Connect |last=Powell |first=Rob |date=2021-01-19 |website= |publisher= |access-date=2022-07-26 |quote=}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.primus.ca/ Official Residential Website] |
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* [http://www.primus.ca/business/ Official Business Website] |
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{{Canadian VOIP}} |
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{{Canadian mobile phone companies}} |
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{{Canadian ISP}} |
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[[Category:Mobile virtual network operators]] |
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