Nine months after launching Digital Phone service in its first market, Canada’s Shaw Communications is now handling more than 1,000,000 calls per day in its network.
Currently, more than 50% of Digital Phone customers are taking a new phone number when they activate Shaw Digital Phone service. All customers choosing a new number can have their Shaw Digital Phone service installed the next day. Shaw Digital Phone is currently available in Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Victoria.
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- In January 2005. Shaw Cablesystems, one of the largest Canadian multi-system cable operators, confirmed the deployment of a multimedia network from Nortel, including the Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) 5200. The SIP-based platform could be used to deliver a variety of multimedia services, including desktop video calling, voice call management, instant messaging, collaboration tools, and personalization services. Shaw plans to offer these services in conjunction with its high-speed Internet service and is expected to be the first cable operator in Canada to offer SIP-based multimedia services.