According to a cost-benefit analysis by Andrew Roublak, if everyone in North Canda switched to Vonage, they could save over $400 a year.

That’s in Canadian dollars, but still.

“I’m going to run through a seemingly far-fetched but quite plausible scenario in which the grass-roots movement of internet telephony undermines and ultimately destroys Northwestel as a telecommunications company in the North.”

Dump the phone company and ask yourself, “Does the North need Northwestel?“

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