Primus Canada Expands BEX to Four New Cities

Primus Telecommunications (News - Alert) Canada Inc. (Primus Canada) revealed today that it has expanded its BEX (Business Ethernet Xtended) Internet service to new areas of Canada, namely Vancouver, British Columbia, and Edmonton, Alberta, as well as both Brampton and London, Ontario. The telecommunications company says it also intends to expand BEX service into four additional areas in Ontario over the coming months. This was prompted by "significant customer demand," according to Primus Canada.

BEX makes use of Ethernet-in-the-First-Mile protocols to provide high bandwidth Internet service at affordable rates, allowing companies to better support Internet-intensive applications. Primus Canada's BEX service can offer businesses savings of up to 47 percent when compared to competing fiber Internet services with the same reliability. Furthermore, BEX provides  three quarters of small- and medium-sized Canadian businesses with high bandwidth Internet access that don't have access to equivalent fiber connections.

"We have seen greater than a 250 percent increase in demand for our BEX technology over the last six months, which is phenomenal for a service that launched a little over one year ago," said AJ Byers, executive vice president of Primus Business Services. "At the same time, we have had many companies who are outside of our current footprint letting us know that they want access to the service. Today we are able to meet part of this demand by expanding to four new cities and committing to additional growth later this year."

BEX Internet service uses already existing infrastructures which powers relatively fast and easy deployment and installation. Most impressively, BEX's service is symmetrical, meaning it offers 20Mbps speeds whether downloading or uploading — making BEX cloud friendly as well as ensuring optimal voice quality and smooth video playback, which are issues inherent in connections with slow upload rates.

Primus Canada — which launched new cloud services in March of this year, shortly after declaring that most Canadian businesses are vulnerable to data loss — now serves a total of seven cities across Canada, with coverage to be launched in Brantford, Hamilton, Kingston and Windsor, Ontario, by mid year of 2012.