Primus is the 6th largest Carrier company worldwide.  Like other industry leaders, Primus delivers high-quality solutions for more than 3 million consumers, including small & medium enterprises and multinational businesses. Unlike the rest, Primus takes advantage of global telecommunications deregulation. This allows Primus to bring you facilities-based networks and facilities-based datacenters for a sophisticated line of services to manage your complete E-Business and data communication needs.

Primus has ownership interests in over 23 transoceanic fiber-optic cable systems in Europe, North and South America, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Primus also holds Internet assets including:

  • Second-largest alternative communications company in Canada
  • Third-largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Australia
  • Fourth-largest full service carrier in Australia
  • Fifth-largest ISP in Canada
  • Fifth-largest independent ISP in Brazil
  • A leading competitive entrant in Europe
K. Paul Singh

"Our management team will continue to focus on executing the Company's business plan with discipline and precision. We are confident that stockholder value will be enhanced as we progress as a global Total Services Provider offering a suite of bundled best-of-breed data, Internet, Web hosting, enhanced applications, E-Commerce and voice services.”

K. Paul Singh
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer


Primus Partners


Cisco Systems
Based on its commitment to build a high-performance, scalable, reliable and robust network, Primus is among an elite group of service providers around the world whose networks meet the stringent criteria established by Cisco Systems. Utilizing Cisco technologies in its network infrastructure, Primus has been recognized as a Cisco Powered Network Partner.
COMPAQ Compaq Computer Corporation is the largest supplier of computing systems in the world. Compaq designs, develops, manufactures, and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services, including industry-leading enterprise computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, and communications products, commercial desktop and portable products, and consumer PCs. Compaq has partnered with Primus in the design, buildout and marketing of Primus's North American data centers and managed, shared and dedicated hosting solutions supporting small- and medium-sized businesses and large corporate customers.
Covad is a leading national broadband service provider of high-speed Internet and network access utilizing Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology. It offers DSL, T1, managed security, Web and email hosting, IP and dial-up services directly through Covad's direct sales force and web and telephone sales and through Internet Service Providers, value-added resellers, telecommunications carriers and affinity groups to small and medium-sized businesses and home users.
Hewlett Packard Hewlett Packard and Primus have formed a strategic alliance to deliver e-commerce, Web-hosting and Internet/data services. These services will be offered to business customers through data centers that are being deployed throughout Primus's existing extensive worldwide facilities-based communications network.
Lucent Technologies In conjunction with the deployment of Primus’s global broadband fiber optic IP+ATM network, Lucent has been enlisted as a key infrastructure equipment provider.
Nortel Networks Throughout Primus's global fiber optic network, Primus has deployed carrier grade switches at its international and domestic gateways and other telecommunications products from Nortel Networks. As a leading networking equipment company, Nortel has been a long time provider