Kenora Telephone is prepared to bring in a new tenant for the shuttered Altantis Direct call centre if the company cannot come up with the funds to reopen the centre.
The telephone utility should know by late June whether Atlantis Direct will reopen the facility located in the Bergman Building. Atlantis laid off 58 employees May 29 without pay for their final two weeks of work. They are mailing claim forms to the Ministry of Labour and asking for an investigation.
Consultants for the telephone company say there are a number of other telemarketing prospects that have shown interest in the past and are just waiting in the wings. Last year, Kenora Telephone, with the assistance of a provincial grant, purchased a $700,000-dialer unit for Atlantis.
