Bell Canada operated as the Canadian subsidiary of the Bell System from 1880 to 1975. The company is named after the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, who also co-founded Bell Telephone Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Historically, Bell Canada has been one of Canada's most important and most powerful companies and, in 1975, was listed as the fifth largest in the country. BCE ranked number 301 on the 2021 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list. In addition to the Bell Canada telecommunications properties, BCE also owns Bell Media (which operates mass media properties including the national CTV Television Network) and holds significant interests in the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, owner of several Toronto professional sports franchises. īell Canada is one of the main assets of the holding company BCE Inc., formerly known as Bell Canada Enterprises. The company serves over 13 million phone lines and is headquartered at the Campus Bell complex in the borough of Verdun in Montreal. It provides mobile service through its Bell Mobility (including flanker brand Virgin Mobile Canada) subsidiary, and television through its Bell Satellite TV ( direct broadcast satellite) and Bell Fibe TV ( IPTV) subsidiaries.īell Canada's principal competitors are Rogers Communications in Ontario, Telus and Shaw Communications in Western Canada, and Quebecor ( Videotron) and Telus in Quebec. Its subsidiary Bell Aliant provides services in the Atlantic provinces. It is also a CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) for enterprise customers in the western provinces. It is an ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec as such, it was a founding member of the Stentor Alliance.
Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the borough of Verdun in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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