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Samer Bishay
Samer Bishay of Iristel (Handout photo. Graphic by Naomi Wildeboer/Hill Times Publishing.)

Iristel blossoms from Montreal apartment to national carrier

People |
By Paul Park
| September 26, 2024

Samer Bishay was working for the Canadian Space Agency in Saint-Hubert, Que. in the late 1990s when he stumbled across a magazine article about real-time communications. At the time, a long distance phone call from Bishay’s Montreal apartment to his family in Toronto cost around one dollar per minute. But, that story said, the internet would soon see those prices slashed.

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