Iristel

History

Iristel was established in 1999 by Samer Bishay., initially focusing on VoIP services. The company was granted a carrier license by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission in 2004, allowing it to provide local phone services. Over the years, the company expanded its offerings and network infrastructure, becoming one of Canada's larger independent telecommunications providers.

Iristel’s company site lists offices in the Canadian cities of Markham Ontario, Montreal Quebec, Matane Québec and Gaspe, as well as offices in USA, Romania, Moldova, Kenya, and Norway.

Iristel launched its High Definition (HD) VoIP Telephone Service in February 2007. By May 2007, the company added Domestic and Global SIP Trunking and Hosted PBX to their enterprise VoIP services. Later in December 2007, Iristel began to offer dual mode Wi-Fi-enabled GSM to mobile phones.

In June 2008, Iristel began offering Iristel IP Mobility, a wireless IP service that combines VoIP over Wi-Fi/GSM, Single Number Reach and Fixed Mobile Convergence.

Iristel IP Mobility provides users with a single point of contact for fixed, mobile, and Wi-Fi calls. Users have a single phone number for both inbound and outbound calling across multiple devices. They can also switch calls back and forth between the mobile network and the VoIP network, without interruption to reduce cellular charges. Settings are configurable through an online portal. In February 2009, MTS Allstream, a wholly owned subsidiary of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. and a communication solutions provider in Canada, chose Iristel to convert its Time-division multiplexing (TDM) voice traffic to Internet Protocol (IP).