Having 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.