25 Facts About Bell Canada

Bell Canada is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the borough of Verdun in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Bell Canada serves over 13 million phone lines and is headquartered at the Campus Bell complex in the borough of Verdun in Montreal.

Bell Canada is one of the main assets of the holding company BCE Inc, formerly known as Bell Canada Enterprises.

Bell Canada is named after the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, who co-founded Bell Telephone Company in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bell Canada operated as the Canadian subsidiary of the Bell System from 1880 to 1975.

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Bell Canada extended lines from Nova Scotia to the foot of the Rocky Mountains in what is Alberta.

Bell Canada-owned NewTel purchased the CNR-owned Terra Nova Tel in 1988.

Cellcom Communications is the largest franchisee of Bell Canada, currently operating 25 Bell stores in both Quebec and Ontario regions.

CNR created Northwestel in 1979, and Bell Canada Enterprises acquired the company in 1988 as a wholly owned subsidiary.

Bell Canada sold its 22 exchanges in the eastern region of the NWT to Northwestel in 1992, and BCE transferred ownership of the company to Bell Canada in 1999.

Northern British Columbia, northeastern Ontario and the James Bay region of northern Quebec were served by independent companies, though Bell Canada eventually provided service in more far-flung reaches of Ontario and Quebec, acquired ownership interests in companies serving large swaths of northwestern Quebec and northeastern Ontario, and in Northwestel.

Bell Canada acquired 100 percent of Northern Electric in 1964; starting in 1973, Bell's ownership stake in Northern Electric was diminished through public stock offerings, though it retained majority control.

In 1983, as a result of deregulation, Bell Canada Enterprises was formed as the parent company to Bell Canada and Northern Telecom.

Bell Canada currently provides local phone service only in major city centres in Ontario and Quebec.

In turn, Bell Canada has assumed responsibility for Bell Canada Aliant's wireless and retail operations.

In 2009, Bell Canada purchased electronics retailer The Source and all other assets of InterTAN Canada Ltd.

Bell Canada has deployed MPLS on their nationwide fibre ring network to support consumer and enterprise-level IP applications, such as IPTV and VoIP.

In late 2011, Bell Canada admitted to a policy of bandwidth throttling of BitTorrent traffic across its network when it announced it would stop the practice of "traffic shaping" during periods of high demand beginning in March 2012.

In November 2011, only a few weeks before, the CRTC issued a ruling that stopped the controversial practice of usage-based billing of smaller internet service providers who purchase space on Bell Canada networks, providing a fee structure based on total capacity needed.

Bell Canada had originally wanted to charge providers by how much data each user downloaded.

Bell Canada Mobility operates a cellular network in all Canadian provinces.

Formerly known as ExpressVu, Bell Canada Satellite TV is a satellite television service provider.

Bell Canada Internet provides high speed DSL and fiber to the home FTTH Internet service in many areas where it offers phone service.

Bell Canada began offering Fibre-to-the-node Internet access to some subscribers in 2010.

Bell Canada created the Frank and Gordon beavers to advertise its products from 2006 to 2008.

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