Iristel is Canada’s fastest-growing Competitive Local Exchange Carrier providing innovative communication services that are changing how consumers and businesses communicate. Founded in 1999, Markham-based Iristel operates Canada’s largest facilities-based local voice network extending Coast-to-Coast-to-Coast. Iristel has deployed multiple redundant switching facilities and points of presence (PoPs) nationally.
Iristel is also the parent company to Ice Wireless, an LTE-A carrier with operations in Canada’s northern territories and Quebec. Iristel also owns brands such as Sugar Mobile, an Over-the-Top (OTT) app where phone calls and text messages can be transmitted through data, and Télécommunications de l’Est (TDE), a company that operates a Nomad mobile network, a unique two-way radio digital trunking network built to meet the specific needs of Canada’s rural regions.
A major component of Iristel Canada is Iristel Romania SRL. Iristel Romania is home to many of Iristel’s backend resources such as : Engineering team , Local Number Portability, Network Operations Centre (NOC), some of Iristel’s Customer Care Department, as well as many of the internal and front end resources that are required for the fluid operations of a modern telecommunications service provider. In addition to being a major component of the engine that powers Iristel Canada, Iristel Romania is a national Telecom service provider in Romania, enabling connectivity and local telecommunications services to the residents of Romania.
With Iristel Romania’s integral resources Iristel Canada has been able to grow and to evolve into one of the most advanced communications networks in Canada that is relied upon by businesses, Tier 1 carriers and millions of Canadians for infrastructure solutions such as 911 emergency calls, industrial Internet of Things, machine-to-machine, gaming on mobile devices, and much more. You might say that Iristel provides the technological plumbing that enables millions of mobile devices work seamlessly regardless of the communications provider.