locations 1600 area served canada united states products telephone services voice over internet protocol high speed internet owner yuval barzakay number of employees 200 1 website comwave s official web page comwave telenetworks is canada s largest privately owned telecommunications company . based in toronto and run by president and ceo yuval barzakay comwave was established in 1999 and it serves over 500 cities in canada and over 1 100 in the united states . comwave claims to be an industry leader in voice over ip voip and offer home phone services 2 small business phone lines 3 mobile calling and high speed internet . 4 comwave offers number portability to keep your number when you change carriers and has been battling other carriers to protect this right for canadians . 5 in september 2012 the company launched the ephone app for android 6 now available on ios as well . this voip softphone app helps users avoid roaming and long distance fees by providing a free alternate telephone number in the north american market of their choice . in may 2012 comwave launched its hosted pbx platform . 7 comwave hosted pbx is a cloud based phone system for business that bundles together polycom telephones phone lines over 40 business class features long distance and a private digital secure connection for a fixed monthly fee . comwave hosted pbx phone systems are managed by comwave 24x7 on a secure private connection . predating apple s iphone beginning in 2004 comwave offered a bundle of hardware and services sold as an alternative to traditional phone service known as the iphone . 8 they no longer offer this service under the iphone name . in april 2013 comwave launched its high speed internet services across canada . their plans are all inclusive and include your modem dry loop and in home installation . 9 contents 1 management 2 telemarketing issue 3 consumers issues 4 references management edit yuval barzakay president & ceo telemarketing issue edit in april 2013 comwave telenetworks paid a 100 000 fine by the crtc . the fine was a result of 33 calls made between april 1 2011 and march 18 2013 to people who had registered their phone numbers on the do not call list by independent telemarketers hired by comwave . the company has voluntarily agreed to stop telemarketing and report any customer complaints it to the regulator yearly . 10 consumers issues edit in spite of comwave receiving consumers choice award in 2012 there is a growing number of issues reported by comwave customers . among the most common is the complaint of customers being tied to a 3 year contract with the advertised offer . several hundred reviews 11 attest comwave s customers growing concerns in what appears being signed up without full disclosure with regards to the contract term and penalties . references edit of locations of employees . crunch base . retrieved 2011 04 07 . http www.comwave.net residential home http www.comwave.net business home http www.comwave.net residential internet http www.itworldcanada.com news president and ceo comwave 98896 http www.newswire.ca en story 1041499 comwave announces a new ephone app for android http www.newswire.ca en story 978149 comwave launches hosted pbx business phone system in the cloud http www.theglobeandmail.com technology toronto company has dibs on iphone article1068651 http www.newswire.ca en story 1141387 comwave launches unlimited internet http www.ctvnews.ca business comwave fined 100 000 for breaking telemarketing rules 1.1222649 http www.gonevoip.ca comwave residential review v t e canadian voip providers public internet babytel comwave iristel primus canada teksavvy vonage vmedia zazeen private network access communications cogeco eastlink rogers telecom shaw vid otron westman v t e canadian internet service providers incumbent access communications bell internet bell aliant cogeco mts rogers hi speed internet sasktel shaw communications wind mobile telus internet vid otron independent comwave eastlink national capital freenet primus canada ssi micro teksavvy vmedia westman xplornet yourlink zazeen retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title comwave & oldid 729498966 categories voip companies of canadacompanies established in 1999privately held companies of canada navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 july 2016 at 16 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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