The netTALK Situation Becomes Even More Cloudy [UPDATED]
House Of Cards has nothing on the story of netTALK vs. Iristel. The latest twist in this story came via a Tweet from Samer Bishay who runs the show at Iristel, but used to be at netTALK (which you can see the story behind that here). Here’s the Tweet in question:
To all @netTALK Canadian customers, you will thank me when this is all said and done. Primus filed for protection today. Just be patient.
— Samer Bishay (@SBishayIRIS) January 19, 2016
I’m pretty sure you’re wondering what in blue blazes does that mean. No problem. Here’s what you need to know.
Primus is a Canadian telco that’s a couple of steps down the food chain from telcos like Rogers and Bell. They offer home and residential business phone and Internet services. But they are also a CLEC which stands for competitive local exchange carrier. In other words they can offer the service that Iristel offered to netTALK as I explained in this article. Specifically, connecting Canadian phone numbers to netTALK’s back end hardware. The word on the street is that netTALK was going to move all the Canadian numbers that they have to these guys and continue operations. Except that when they tried, Iristel wouldn’t release them. Now this Tweet implies that Primus has entered creditor protection. That would mean that netTALK would have nowhere to go and have one foot in the grave when it comes to their Canadian operations. It may also give Iristel leverage to get paid.
There’s only one problem with all of this. I can find no evidence that Primus has filed for creditor protection. I’m not saying that it is not true. Only that I have no proof of this one way or the other. So, why did I post this when I can’t confirm or deny this? Simple, a person who is at the center of this whole debacle has made a statement that can quality as a bit of a bombshell. Some people may take it as fact and it’s my job to wrap some context around this while getting to what the actual facts are. To that end, I am reaching out to Primus to see if I can get some answers in this regard.
More as it comes.
UPDATE: This turned out to be fact. See here for details.
January 20, 2016 at 12:52 am
Samer Bishay… What a moron!!! I WILL NEVER thank him! His God Complex really shines through his latest message. The more he posts, the more he reminds me of a psychopath. His complaining, the pressure tactics and the threats to collect his allegedly amount from netTALK; the projection behavior strikes through when constantly attacking and blaming netTALK. His lack of empathy towards the REAL VICTIMS and his need to appear as THE only Righteous executive powerful enough to hijack the phone service on a whim of 70,000 clients proves how dangerous and heartless this man truly is… So! What type of bomb will you drop, AGAIN, on Twitter tomorrow morning? He really wants to be the center of attention, all the while I suspect he’s hiding some deep dark secrets…
I doubt that a single netTALK customer out of the 75,000 will ever thank you Samer Bishay…well, surely not in this lifetime!