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What do Canadians want from their telecom company? We think we know

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Taking a stand for Canadians in the telecom marketplace, Worldline pledges to save Canadians from being overcharged for their Home Phone and Internet. The era of “having to take it” is over because Worldline is on the side of those who want great service, at the best price in the country, and who don’t want to sign a contract to get it.

UNLIMITED

Worldline is all about being Unlimited! Besides having the best Internet Package pricing in Canada, all have no monthly data caps. None. Overage charges don’t exist here because we believe data caps are unfair, unjust and nothing more than a cash grab. Bundle your Unlimited High-Speed Internet with your Home Phone and you’ll receive Unlimited Canadian Long Distance for Free. Or try our Long Distance Packages and Call the World Unlimited.

NO CONTRACTS

We work hard every day to keep our customers satisfied, because the only thing keeping them with us is the quality of the services we provide. Unlike the big phone companies, who insist on long-term complicated contracts, Worldline customers have no obligation to stay with us, but they do because we earn their business every single day.

NO CREDIT CHECK

Buying a Home Phone or Internet service shouldn’t be as onerous or nervewracking as qualifying for a mortgage. Worldline doesn’t put our customers through a credit check for one reason and one reason only, and that is trust. As a company, our number one mission is to earn the trust of new customers and maintain it with existing customers, and that starts with us trusting them first.

NO KIDDING

What you see is what you get. No hidden fees. No hidden charges. You can count on the same invoice month in and month out. No overage charges for data, no added fees for call waiting, or call forwarding or long distance. And no contracts means Worldline won’t automatically renew your commitment or add costly services you don’t want or need.


SAC

 

Happy 75th Doughnut Day Canada – Why isn’t this a national holiday?

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Contact_doughnutHappy Doughnut Day! In 1938, the Chicago Salvation Army established National Doughnut Day to raise money during the Great Depression. Now 75 years later, doughnuts are bigger business than ever. The U.S. doughnut industry is worth an estimated $3.6 billion US, and nobody seems to love doughnuts more than Canadians!

The question as to why doughnuts have holes has been raised by dozens of bakers over the years, but most agree that the answer to this sticky question lies in the fact that the interior of these fried cakes would not cook fully without a hole in the center. In short, the consistency of a doughnut lacking a hole would be, quite simply, doughy.

Another riveting theory as to the origin of the bulls eye in the doughnut holds that a sea captain named Hanson Gregory, while manning his post one stormy night, found it impossible both to steer his vessel and to eat his fried cake. Out of sheer frustration, and probably out of hunger, he impaled his cake over one of the spokes of the ship’s wheel, thereby creating a finger hold with which to grip the cake. Quite pleased with his ingenuity, Mr. Gregory ordered the galley’s cook to fry the cakes in that manner henceforth.

Whatever the reason for the hole in the doughnut, this fried cake, with or without a hole, has been incorporated into the diets of people throughout the world for centuries. In fact, archaeologists found petrified fried cakes with holes amongst the artifacts of a primitive Indian tribe.

Doughnut fun facts

  • National Doughnut Day is celebrated on the first Friday in June.
  • More than 10 billion doughnuts are made every year in the U.S. alone.
  • Canada’s estimated doughnut consumption is around 1 billion.
  • Per capita, Canada has more doughnut shops than any other country.
  • The largest doughnut ever made was a 1.7 ton jelly doughnut, which was 16 feet in diameter and 16 inches high in the center.
  • Adolph Levitt invented the first doughnut machine in 1920.
  • The Dutch are credited with bringing doughnuts to North America with their olykoeks, or oily cakes in the 1800s.
  • The Guinness World record for doughnut eating is held by John Haight, who ate 29 doughnuts in just over 6 minutes.

Source: LaMar’s Donuts, www.lamars.com

Spot the Worldline Bus and You Can Win!

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That’s Amanda Little, the head of our HR department reenacting (rather poorly actually) her modelling job in one of our Worldline advertisements. Also sprinkled in that picture are Sam, our marketing director, Mike Brown, VP of product development, Mike Young, our creative director, Erin, who works on the social side of our businesses, and is a twitter star in her own rite, Larry, head of network engineering and Kim, an installation co-coordinator.

Oh, and of course one of our Super Kids, whose name must be kept secret to protect the innocent.

So what you ask? Well, for the next month or so this is the kind of stuff that matters because we just launched our:

Facebook “Spot the Bus” Contest

Here’s how you play:

post-imageLook around for a Worldline advertisement that are proudly displayed on dozens of municipal buses around Ontario, snap a quick pic, visit the Worldline Facebook Page, “Like” us, then submit your picture, fill out the form and you are entered in the contest for a chance to win a brand new Apple iPad.

Talk about a snap! Get it? eh? eh? (never mind). We have no idea how many folks are going to enter this contest, but we figure it’s not going to be too many meaning chances are more that good that anyone who enters can win, which is great.

Oh, and this is the prize:

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So keep your eyes peeled and good luck!

Thanks for following @WorldlineCanada. Here’s some free long distance for you.

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WorldlineCanadaTwitter040613We really appreciate you following us on all our social channels like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. We’ve received a terrific response and steady growth on all of them. For example, since we launched the @worldlinecanada feed, we’ve gone from zero to one thousand in just a few months, with folks from all over Canada following us for Worldline service upgrades, scheduled maintenance, special promotions and new product launches.

But mostly they are for the #moneysavingtips we publish 3 or 4 times a day. We started that “hashtag” community in February, and today hundreds of folks are posting to it from around the world, particularly in England oddly enough, (or not so odd when you think about how the English are with their money).

Anyway, by way of thanks, and of course to save everybody some money, we want to give Canadians some free long distance. We’ll be rolling these out across the country over the next little while, but we’re going to launch the first one at our home base, the Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge area.

Here’s what folks in and around that area can do to get their:

Three Months of Unlimited Canadian Long Distance – Free!

    1. Call the local access number: (519) 804-2601
    2. Listen to the Worldline greeting
    3. At the dial tone enter the 10 digit destination number (area code + 7 digits)
    4. Worldline connects your call FREE anywhere on our network in Canada.

…and then talk your face off.

Use it at home. Use it on your cell phone. For three months. On us.

As mentioned before, we’ll be rolling this out across the country over the next few weeks and months, so stay tuned! But if you can’t wait for your three months of Unlimited Long Distance, you can always sign up today. Our Call Canada plan is only $3.95/month, and works both at home and on your cell phone. For more details click this link:

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