It is a Canadian company based in Toronto that focuses on integrated communications as a provider of data, e-business and voice services to business and households.

In 1998, Call-Net acquired long-distance service and data-circuit provider Fonorola of Montreal for about $1.8 billion and merged it into Sprint Canada.

The deal allowed Rogers to enter the residential phone business to challenge Bell Canada.

As such, Rogers did not maintain the phone lines and was affected by the Bell Subco strike of 2005, which impaired its ability to provide timely service.

During the time of the local strikes, Rogers Telecom was not able to provide exact installation dates in those two provinces.