FibreStream

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FibreStream
Private
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded2009 in Ottawa, Canada
FounderHarvey Belfer, Jason Cowan
Headquarters
Toronto
,
Canada
Area served
Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Ottawa, Vancouver
Productsfibre-optic internet, landline
Number of employees
50 (2020)
Websitefibrestream.ca

FibreStream Inc. is an independent Canadian Internet service provider(ISP) based in Toronto, Ontario. It offers unlimited fibre-optic Internet, via its private fibre network, to condo residents in Toronto, the Greater Toronto Area, Ottawa and Vancouver..[1]. Established in 2009, FibreStream works exclusively with large condominium buildings to install its own private Internet_in_Canada fibre network in each building. In 2019, it became the first Internet service provider in Canada to offer a 5000 Mbps residential internet package [2]

History

Originally headquartered in Ottawa, FibreStream moved its head office to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in late 2012 when it began servicing condos in the Toronto area. FibreStream expanded its operations to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in late 2019. As of 2020, FibreStream has approximately 50 employees[3], and over 70,000 “FibreReady” condo units across the three regions [4]

Services

Internet

FibreStream’s Internet is offered at the following speeds: 50 Mbps, 500 Mpbs and 5000 Mbps. It is Peering|peered with Google, Amazon_(company)|Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Twitch_(service)|Twitch and YouTube. All standalone WIFI routers are compatible (FibreStream does not use modems) but require a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol|DHCP or Dynamic IP connection.[4]

5000 Mbps Plan

In August 2019, FibreStream became the first Internet service provider in Canada to offer a 5000 Mbps residential Internet package (5 Gigabits per second) — the fastest Internet speed available to residential consumers in Canada as of this article’s publication date (February 3, 2020)[5]. The 5000 Mbps service requires multi-gig hardware to achieve full speeds and is available only at select buildings. [6]

Telephone

FibreStream also offers home phone services to condo dwellers utilizing a regular analog line.[7]

Press

In 2015, CBC mentioned FibreStream in a piece called “Why super-fast internet may come from a company you've never heard of.”[8]

In 2019, Narcity named FibreStream in its article “This Is The Cheapest Internet Provider According To Which Province You Live In" for the province of Ontario.[9]

In 2019, Mobile Syrup wrote about wrote about FibreStream’s 5000 Mbps high-speed plan.

In 2020, The Canadian Press, The Logic, Trend Hunter and Mobile Syrup, wrote about FibreStream's COVID-19 response, which included customer screening before all installation appointments.[10][11][12]

External Links

FibreStream Internet

References

  1. Paddon, David (March 16, 2020). "Federal bureaucrats cautious about network overload as remote work increases". Toronto. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  2. Shekar, Shruti (August 28, 2019). "Independent ISP FibreStream offering internet services at 5,000Mbps". Toronto. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  3. Fibre, Stream. "FibreStream First to Offer 5000 Mbps Internet in Canada". newswire.ca. Cision. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "FibreStream Internet". www.fibrestream.ca.
  5. PC Magazine named Bell Canada the fastest ISP of 2019. Bell’s fastest offering is 1500 Mbps download speed and 940 Mbps upload speed.
  6. "FibreStream Internet". www.fibrestream.ca.
  7. "FibreStream Internet". www.fibrestream.ca.
  8. Dubinsky, Zach (August 12, 2015). "Why super-fast internet may come from a company you've never heard of". Toronto. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  9. Annetts, Kailie (June 2019). "This Is The Cheapest Internet Provider According To Which Province You Live In". Toronto. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  10. Schwartz, Zane (March 18, 2020). "Suspending data caps, offering bill relief: How 22 Canadian internet service providers are responding to the pandemic". Toronto. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  11. Nedelcheva, Kalina (March 26, 2020). "Optimizing Internet Service Amid Disruption". Toronto. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  12. Lamont, Jonathan (March 13, 2020). "What Canadian telecom companies are doing to help customers during COVID-19". Toronto. Retrieved June 19, 2020.

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