04:07 PM EST Feb 24
DAVID PADDON

TORONTO (CP) - Call-Net Enterprises Inc. said Wednesday it will start offering a high-speed Internet service to residential and small-office customers this year - a move that's strategically critical for its Sprint Canada communications business.

"The single biggest reason our customers give for leaving us is the desire to have home phone service and high-speed Internet service provided by the same supplier," Call-Net president and CEO Bill Linton told analysts in a conference call.

Starting in the July-September quarter, Sprint Canada will offer digital subscriber lines - technology already sold by bigger phone companies such as Bell Canada, Telus and Manitoba Telecom to deliver high-speed Internet service.

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