IPTV in Canada: An update  In 2005, cable companies began
offering cable telephony , also known as VoIP or digital phone
service, to its customers for the first time. Since that time,
the big four cable companies – Cogeco, Rogers, Shaw, and
Videotron have taken more than 3.6 million landline phone
customers away from the big Canadian telephone companies.   The
term IPTV may be new to some readers, however, the technology is
not. The technology was first developed in 1990’s by a company
later bought by Cisco Systems. Canadian phone companies have
been testing and experimenting with IPTV since the 1990’s. In
1999, NBTel was the first to commercially deploy Internet
Protocol in Canada. Sasktel and MTS have been offering IPTV
services to select customers since 2002 and 2004 respectively.
Telus began selling its Telus TV service (now called Optik TV)
in late 2005, while Bell Canada began offering its service
called Fibe TV in 2010.  So what is the difference between the
digital cable service offered by cable compa