Calling Plans for Canada now generally available
Published May 01 2018 04:00 PM 16.3K Views
Microsoft

In January 2018, we announced Calling Plans for Canada was in public preview. Today, May 1, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Microsoft Calling Plans for Canada. Please contact your Microsoft Account Team or partner for details on purchasing.

 

All current Calling Plan features will be available to customers including domestic, international, and lower minute plans.  Canada’s domestic Calling Plan will include 3,000 minutes per user per month.

 

We are also offering an additional useful feature for US and Canadian customers. Any calls made between US and Canada users (in both directions) will be considered domestic, not international. This was a request we heard multiple times during the preview process. This will help customers further control costs.

 

It’s important to note that Calling Plans work with both Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. You can buy today and use with Skype for Business in Office 365. And when you are ready to use calling in Teams, you can easily transition users.

 

Phone System and Calling Plans in Office 365 together enable calling for your organization, giving each user a primary phone number for making and receiving phone calls. Your organization can shift away from expensive telephony hardware to simplify the management of your phone system.

 

Getting started with Calling Plans

To acquire and use Microsoft Calling Plans, customers must have Phone System (formerly Cloud PBX), which is included with the Office 365 E5 plan and available as an add-on to other Office 365 plans. And if you are new to Teams, please review our quick start guide. You can learn more about geographic availability of Calling Plans here

 

Correction: in an earlier version of this blog, it was stated that minutes can pool across Canada and the US. This is incorrect. Pooling of minutes is by both SKU and country. Minutes are not shared across countries. We regret this error and any confusion it has caused. The blog has been corrected.

9 Comments
Iron Contributor


OH CANADA!!!  Amazing news!!!

Iron Contributor

Say what ??  This is great!!!  Good job Microsoft!!   "And calls made between US and Canada users (in both directions) will be considered domestic, not international"

Iron Contributor

Hey @paul, should we see the new Calling Plans subscription under  our Canadian tenants ?  I don't see anything yet ?

Ok starting to see some Calling Plans appearing… :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microsoft

Is the 911 emergency screening service included for Canada like it is for the US?

Microsoft

911 calling is supported in Canada. As in US calls will be first answered by a responder that checks if users physical location matches their registered address given the mobility supported by Teams/Skype for Business.

Iron Contributor

This is fantastic, great white north!

Copper Contributor

I'm a Canadian User licensed and using E5 - looking to replace current third-party telephony provider and move to MS PBX.

Should I talk to MS sales? Since I'm already using E5 - would I just be purchasing calling plan and transferring phone number? 

Or is there a special PBX contact I should be talking to?

Great news BTW!

 

Microsoft

E5 includes the Phone System license for the PBX functionality. You just need to purchase a Calling Plan license and port in existing numbers.

 

This article may help: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/calling-plans-for-office-365

Iron Contributor

Great news for Canada & UK for sure! Also great news that, in general, MSFT is moving towards opening up the lessor O365 SKU's for Teams Voice. As the GTM partner for Canada Partner Hosted Architecture Direct Routing Calling Plans, I was in Toronto for the launch last week. These are exciting Times! The narrative of Teams Voice being a game changer continues to gain momentum and exposure (I evangelize it all day every day and our phones have not stopped ringing since our first partner hosted DR joint Press Release with MSFT).

For the CAD tenant folks, there seems to be some discrepancy around the # of domestic mins included in the BV SKU, are you seeing 3000 or 1200 in your tenant?  Much appreciated. 

Respectfully, 
Gary

https://canada.nuwave.net/mssolutions/nuwave-smb/

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