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Who is ThinkTel?
ThinkTel is a Canadian communications service provider focused on IP-based voice, data, and network services for business and institutional customers.
- Enterprise and wholesale Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking and IP voice services (unified communications / telephony)
- Business Internet access and data connectivity solutions (networking)
- Wide Area Network (WAN), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and related managed network services for multi-site organizations (networking)
- Hosted and cloud-based voice and collaboration offerings integrated with IP networks (unified communications)
- Carrier services and partner-focused wholesale offerings for service providers and resellers (carrier services)
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More About ThinkTel
ThinkTel operates as a Canadian IP-based communications provider that focuses on enterprise-grade voice and data services. It serves organizations that require converged voice and data over IP, including enterprises, public-sector bodies, and service-provider partners. Its offerings are positioned for scenarios where IT and network teams want to consolidate telephony and data networking across branch offices, contact centers, and headquarters locations using standards-based IP infrastructure.
At the core of ThinkTel’s portfolio are SIP trunking services (unified communications / telephony), which enable organizations to connect IP-PBX systems, session border controllers, and unified communications platforms to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) via IP. These services typically rely on SIP, RTP/VoIP media transport, and interconnection with carrier networks. Enterprises use SIP trunks to replace or augment legacy PRI and TDM trunks, to centralize call control, and to support number portability and direct inward dialing across multiple regions.
Beyond SIP trunking, ThinkTel provides business Internet and data connectivity (networking), including access services that enable secure, high-availability connections between sites and into carrier Points of Presence (PoP). For multi-site organizations, ThinkTel supports WAN and MPLS-based offerings (networking) that allow Traffic Engineering (TE), Quality of Service (QoS) policies for real-time voice and video, and segregation of business-critical applications. These capabilities are relevant for IT teams that design network architectures with class-of-service differentiation for unified communications and collaboration platforms.
ThinkTel also offers hosted and cloud-based voice services (unified communications), which can include IP voice lines, hosted PBX-like functions, and integration with enterprise collaboration environments. These services are used by organizations that prefer to offload PBX infrastructure and maintenance, while retaining control through administrative portals, APIs, or standard SIP endpoints. Hosted voice and SIP trunking can coexist in hybrid architectures where some sites maintain on-premises (on-prem) call control while others consume cloud-based voice services.
In the carrier and wholesale domain, ThinkTel provides services for other service providers, systems integrators, and channel partners (carrier services). These wholesale offerings may include IP termination, origination, and access services that partners embed in their own solutions. By offering interoperability with widely adopted IP-PBX and unified communications platforms, ThinkTel fits into enterprise solution categories such as unified communications as a service (UCaaS), SIP connectivity, and managed network services.
Within a directory or marketplace context, ThinkTel can be categorized under unified communications and collaboration (SIP trunking, hosted voice), enterprise networking (business Internet, WAN, MPLS), and carrier/wholesale telecommunications services. Its portfolio is oriented toward organizations that design IP-centric telephony and data architectures and that require carrier-grade connectivity between on-prem infrastructure, cloud collaboration platforms, and the PSTN.
Our description of ThinkTel. Updated February 2026.