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The Videotron telephone service have arrived at Montreal region.I"m seriously thinking to jump at there cable telephone.And there illico,,,Any opinion,experience with the new technology and there service?With there internet,i"m not have to much complain beside there caps(download,upload limit)

A couple of my friends got this in the South Shore and are very happy with it. Much cheaper than Bell I am also waiting for it to be available here in Lasalle and bye bye Bell.

It is available in my region and I know a lot of people who have this service and they are very satisfied with it.I'm considering switching over them, but since I do not pay for the standard cable (it was working when I bought the house and still working for more the 1 year), it will be worthless for me.But as soon as the standard cable goes disconected, I switch for both services, cable (Illico) and telephone and kicks Bell out.

the only prob is if you're out of electricity, no phone cause the modem will be off. but how many times did you miss electricity last year???

Quote, originally posted by Thewhite »the only prob is if you're out of electricity, no phone cause the modem will be off. but how many times did you miss electricity last year???Non,and if the electricity goes out,the phone modem have a battery back up for 8 hours.And,if you want more,you can add a UPS power management for 35$ to ...$ on the modem to last longer.

Quote, originally posted by POLO »Non,and if the electricity goes out,the phone modem have a battery back up for 8 hours.Really? Wow I didn't know that, makes it even more interesting now.Can you say bye bye Bell lol I wonder what kind of deal I get if I have all three services (Internet, Cable, and telephone) with Videotron?

I see a promotion;illico,internet intermediaire,telephone.http://www.videotron.com/servi...s.jsp

Here a videotron client forum;people talk about they problem,info,...http://www.dslreports.com/forum/videotron

Videotron is the only VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) provider who has a battery back up in the modem. Also, you don't have to get high speed internet to have it.With the other VoIP provide (Bell, Primus, Rogers) you must get the high speed internet first. Plus, Videotron is the only provider who has a battery back up in case of pawer faillure. None of the other provider have a battery pack in he modem to make it working during power faillure.Plus, with regular telephone service, yes it works during power outage, but they run over battery back up too in the central office. So if the power faillure is too long (more then 10 hours) your standard telephone service will fail as well, unless they put a generator in the c.o.

That's pretty cool - a IPT Terminal with a battery backup from the company. Slick!Verizon was running fiber to the house and their box had a battery backup for telephony service - nice idea, and I think there may be a regulation or two for the telecoms by our feds that make it that way so the house will have dial tone no matter what.

I think I will take the plonge and get it! With the services I want it will cost 25,24$ a month (tax in) I pay about 35$ a month with Bell!I just want to read up more about this modem they are talking about. Just wondering how to work my phones with this.....

Videotron become very hot.Videotron announced today that it is rolling out its residential cable telephone service to more than 825,000 households across the Island of Montreal.Company said today they now have over 62,000 customers. Impressive 6 month start.http://www.digitalhomecanada.c...id=51And soon they will offer the wireless phone ,with telus maybe.http://www2.canoe.com/techno/n....htmlSeem that they try to take the lead in telecommunication too.

Here a link who explain in detail the equipment and installation.http://www.videotron.com/servi...6.jsp

''Videotron Selects ARRIS Telephony Modems for Large-Scale VoIP Videotron, Canada's third largest MSO, has selected ARRIS as one of its VoIP modem suppliers. Videotron has placed a substantial initial order for ARRIS DOCSIS 2.0-certified Touchstone Telephony Modem indoor E-MTAs. These E-MTAs will be used to address the customer premises side of Videotron's large-scale VoIP telephony deployment based on PacketCable standards.''Anyone have experience a arrise modem in the past?

Quote, originally posted by POLO »Here a link who explain in detail the equipment and installation.http://www.videotron.com/servi...6.jsp Merci Paul