Sprint to launch High Speed DSL Internet Service in Q3 2005

While releasing 2004 Financial results this week, Sprint Canada parent Call-Net Enterprises Inc. announced that it intends to launch a high-speed DSL Internet product during the third quarter of 2005.

The move is designed to stem the loss of residential phone customers who are leaving Sprint because the company is currently unable to offer high speed internet to them.

"The single biggest reason our customers give for leaving us is the desire to have home phone service and high-speed Internet service provided by the same supplier," Call-Net president and CEO Bill Linton told analysts in a conference call.

When the company was asked about over VoIP services, the CEO said that Sprint Canada had tested a VOIP service last year but the company was not going to making large investments in the technology until adoption rates were much higher.

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