Imagine having a phone line with all the bells and whistles at $9.95 a month plus e-voicemail – where you can now receive and manage your voicemail through email and save up to 50% savings in your home phone line and feature cost. Instead of bundling services that you may not want such as unlimited long distance service for a fixed monthly fee, Times Telecom allows its subscribers to choose the plans that fit their budget and needs such as – unlimited long distance to many countries, virtual phone numbers (the ability to add on phone numbers of many countries whereby from Vancouver you can receive local calls from anyone in selected cities such as London, Hong Kong, etc). In addition to the above, Times Telecom ‘Tag Along’ capability allows users the capability to bring along their equipment with them when they are on the road so that they are able to continue to make and receive calls. Welcome to the Century of VoIP.

Unlike most broadband or digital phone service out in the market that is packaged with unlimited long distance, Times Telecom’s offers package starts with basic full featured home phone service at a low price of only $9.95 a month. The package includes one phone line, unlimited local calling and a wealth of calling features such as call waiting, caller ID, voicemail, eVoicemail and much more. Long distance prices starts as low as 1.5 cents a minute with the basic phone line package. In addition to the basic phone line plan, unlimited long distance bundles with full feature phone line service includes unlimited calling within North America, as low as $14.95 a month and Asia and Europe for as low as $24.95.

Times Telecom Home Phone service will initially be launched in selected Canadian cities including Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. You can presently choose your own phone number within the 604, 403 and 780 area codes, make free calls to other Times Home Phone users anywhere in the world, and access your Times’ service wherever there is high-speed Internet connection, even if you’re across the ocean. Let’s say you subscribe to Times Home Phone in Vancouver with a 604 area code. You travel to Philippines staying with your parent for a few months but would like to let all your friends and your love one to easily speak with you whenever they want. You can simply bring along with you the phone adapter, plug it in to any broadband internet connection in the Philippines and then you can make and receive calls to/from Vancouver as if they are local calls… for FREE!!! It saves all the long distance charges you and your friends have to pay. Hence, you can bring “Vancouver” with you to anywhere in the World.

Times expects to expand the new service into additional markets later this year. Once available, the customer will be able to select a local or an international phone number from another country, allowing family, friends and business associates in the selected country to call them – all at a fixed monthly fee.

The company plans to support the marketing of its service with an extensive communications campaign that will include mass market advertising on television, radio and in print and through direct mail, viral marketing and online advertising. Advertising begins in Vancouver today.

Customers can subscribe from anywhere in Canada to Times Broadband Phone service by visiting www.timestelecom.ca, or by calling (604) 628-5883 or toll free 1.888.668.6054.