Official Press Release: Worldline’s Statement on CRTC’s DSL Ruling of February 21, 2013

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Worldline’s Statement on CRTC’s DSL Ruling of February 21, 2013

One of Canada’s fastest growing CLECs welcomes this game changing decision

CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO–(02/22/13)- The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced Thursday, February 21, it has established a standard billing model to set limits on how much the telecom incumbents may charge independent Internet providers such as Worldline.

Worldline will see “significant reductions” in the wholesale rates they pay as the CRTC ruled their monthly fee of $2,213 for 100 Mbps of capacity is to be cut by more than half to $1,036 per 100 Mbps.

Worldline, a leader in unlimited Internet service, who already offers the best value in the market, welcomes this ruling, and wonders what took the CRTC so long to realize that Canadians have been overcharged for their data for years:

“I feel this is a tremendous win for not only the independent phone and internet companies that deliver DSL service, but for the customer,” said Worldline Co-founder and CMO John Stix. “There is no doubt that this decision tips the scales as up until now cable internet providers have had a distinct advantage over DSL service providers.”

“I can speak for Worldline, that we will be looking to pass along the savings brought forth by this ruling to as many Canadians as possible.  Worldline has always stood for creating alternative services with unique value for our customers and we strive everyday to maintain this market leading philosophy.”

Coinciding with this landmark decision, Worldline will soon be announcing how they will pass these savings along to the Canadian marketplace.

About Worldline:
Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2013, Worldline provides affordable home phone, high speed internet and long distance services to hard working Canadians. With over 300,000 subscribers, Worldline is one of the fastest growing telecommunications companies in Canada.  Worldline is wholly owned and operated by Fibernetics Corp, a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC).  Website: worldline.ca Twitter: @worldlinecanada

About Fibernetics:
Headquartered in Cambridge Ontario, Fibernetics is dedicated to changing the way people communicate by offering telco functionality and pricing that Canadians have never seen before. Fibernetics has its own national infrastructure that delivers a full range of voice and data services for residential customers through Worldline and business clients with their Newt PBX and ANA solutions. Website: fibernetics.ca Twitter: @fibernetics

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Working with the Mothership

BellCanada1902Having been established in 1880, Ma Bell was all on its own providing telephone service for more than 100 years. Essentially functioning as a monopoly, Bell Canada had virtually a 100% market share from sea to shining sea. That was until the 1980’s, when the federal government decided that for the country as a whole, and its people in particular, this probably wasn’t the greatest of ideas.

Competition, they decided, was a good thing.

And thus came the great telecommunications gold rush that lead to companies like Worldline’s parent company Fibernetics to be born. Fibernetics is something called a CLEC (pronounced Sea-Lek), which stands for “Competitive Local Exchange Carrier” and we are regulated by the CRTC. With our series of SS7 Quality switches installed across the county, we have direct connectivity into the heart of the transcontinental fiberoptic network.

What all that means is, we, just like Bell, are a phone and Internet company.

But we are unlike Bell in one very significant way. They had 100 years to wire up the country, spreading copper here, there and everywhere. Worldline has been around for 10 years, and for practical reasons we use the existing Bell infrastructure to get our services into your house.

Meaning that Bell, who is our direct competitor, is also a valued and essential partner.

Which is weird frankly.

As much as we’d like to trash Bell, how can we considering we couldn’t exist without those few meters of copper that they own that comes in off their pole into your place?

We can’t. We’re nice.

What we can do is tell you that, if you are a Bell customer, we can pretty much guarantee you are paying too much for your service. We know, because we know how much Bell charges us, and how much they are charging you – which is a lot!

The thing is, they have to charge you more than we do.

We don’t have any of that. We’re a lean, mean medium sized company focused on saving you money while providing a quality service.

Maybe one day we’ll have to worry about ratings on American Idol or how much money we lost on hosting the Olympics, but that won’t be for a while.

Until then we’ll just stick with what we’re good at.

Being nice.

NEWT™ All in One Voice Solution Saves Businesses up to 50 to 80 Per Cent on Their Monthly Telecommunications Services

NewtManagedPBXCAMBRIDGE, Ontario–()–In Canada, an average of 130,000 new businesses start up each year. For businesses the decision of which voice technology to use is a key budget priority. Telecommunications including: Internet, voice and mobile services are the single most important element to getting a business off the ground. Fibernetics™, a Cambridge based Telecommunications Company has proven to be invaluable for more than 1,000 businesses across Canada by providing affordable and reliable voice solutions. Fibernetics’™ new business voice solution brand NEWT™ saves the average business up to 50 to 80 per cent on their monthly telecommunications service. For small businesses, this cost saving is substantial, while medium to larger businesses can realize even greater savings.

“The NEWT™ brand offers our clients a flawless voice solution”

“The NEWT™ brand offers our clients a flawless voice solution,” explains Chris Lehman, Vice President of Business Services for Fibernetics™. “We are a one stop solution – the network provider, phone line provider, and we developed the NEWT™ Managed PBX Platform. By choosing NEWT™ customers are choosing a company that has the network, built the solution, and provides the integration, installation, training and support – there is no other offering like this on the market.”

Exclusive to the business voice solutions market, NEWT™ eliminates the cost of multiple business lines and replaces them with a single dedicated voice connection, or a high bandwidth, high availability, multi-use voice and data connection with a completely private path for the voice. Fibernetics™ also provides many other data and Internet options for business. Added to this is live support, provided 24 hours a day, everyday throughout the year. Clients also benefit from the “No Interruption Guarantee”, because the Fibernetics ™ team does not need to disable a clients’ current phone system when migrating to NEWT ™. Furthermore, the system includes unlimited conference bridging, voicemail, voicemail to email, call recording, and mobile integration in addition to more than 50 other features purpose built to improve communications for businesses of all sizes.

“The best part of our offering is that we include everything. There are no hidden charges or up sells. Our customers have saved significantly using NEWT™,” explains John Stix, CMO of Fibernetics™. “A recent case study of Discount Car and Truck Rental’s head offices proves NEWT™ to be an asset to day-to-day operations with savings of more than $2,000 on a monthly phone bill and double Internet speed following installation.”

“We’ve realized a saving of over $2,000 per month since switching to NEWT™. We were most impressed that the Fibernetics™ team makes sure everything was taken care of, our staff was fully trained prior to switching, and we had no interruption of our business lines when we made the switch,” comments Al Nanji, Vice-President of Discount Car and Truck Rentals.

Competing service providers use Virtual Private Networks (VPN’s), often over connections that they do not manage, and which are susceptible to the reliability of the Internet. In contrast, NEWT™ uses the Fibernetics™ CLEC privately managed network. Providing even more security than a VPN over the public Internet, the system manages the voice traffic from the regular public telephone network to the customer premise and vice versa.

“NEWT™ lived up to all of its promises. We have reduced our costs significantly, and are in the process of adding other locations across the country to this system,” adds Leonard Malley, AMJ Campbell.

About Fibernetics – fibernetics.ca

Over the last ten years, Fibernetics has emerged as one of Canada’s fastest growing and largest telecommunications companies. Fibernetics’ rapid success has been leveraged by a marriage of established legacy systems with emerging Internet protocol based technologies and underpinned by the unique experience of Fibernetics’ founders and management team, as pioneers of VoIP communications in Canada. Fibernetics is an operating Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) regulated by the CRTC, which has direct connectivity into the heart of the incumbents’ fiber optic networks across Canada.

Fibernetics owns one of Canada’s largest coast-to-coast networks and supports over 300,000 customers daily. Fibernetics has over 200 employees globally with its head office in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada and two international offices located in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Puerto Plata Dominican Republic. Fibernetics under its residential Worldline brand has enjoyed incredible growth serves a very dedicated following. Worldline delivers Canada’s most inexpensive residential home phone, Internet and long distance services and never stops looking for innovative solutions to deliver value for Canadian families.

Fibernetics Business Services has developed a proprietary digital PBX system, NEWT™, which eliminates the cost of business phone lines for Canadian businesses of all sizes. This phone system is easily integrated into a business network and once installed delivers full PBX functionality normally associated with much more expensive systems. The PBX system is directly connected to the Fibernetics CLEC network, which provides scalability, reliability and quality of service. Currently, Fibernetics services over 25,000 business extensions in Canada and has recently launched a new brand for this product and service called NEWT™.