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  Bell Canada Enterprises Inc
Bell Canada Enterprises Inc (BCE) is a communications company best known for its Bell Canada brand under which it provides local and long-distance service.
What is known today as BCE was created in 1983 through a corporate reorganization whereby BCE became parent to over 80 companies previously known as the Bell Group, of which Bell Canada, the country's largest telephone company, had been head.
BCE and other providers of telecommunications services have moved beyond the traditional range of voice-to-voice services and will continue to do so, subject to consumer acceptance and the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission).
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000662   (581 words)

  
  Bell Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bell Canada Enterprises, legally BCE Inc., is, through its subsidiaries including Bell Canada and Aliant, a major telecommunications company as the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone services in most of Canada east of Manitoba.
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.
BCE also owns the CTV television network and The Globe and Mail, a national newspaper, as well as other media assets in what is known as Bell Globemedia, Canada's largest media corporation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bell_Canada   (1077 words)

  
 Bell Canada Enterprises - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Otherwise known as BCE Inc., Bell Canada Enterprises' sole purpose is to own other companies, and to provide telephone services on the side.
Sympatico is the subsidiary of Bell long-heralded as the savior of ancient telecommunication, bringing with it a new era of unworkable freight-based trafficking.
The company was founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1912, when he discovered that the prolonged use of his molecular phone was able to heat his ear within few seconds.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Bell_Canada_Enterprises   (357 words)

  
 Bell Canada Enterprises Reports Third Quarter Results
Bell Canada Financial Performance Excluding the impact of the labour disruption at Aliant (which ended in late September) and the restructuring and other charges (2), Bell Canada's revenue growth was 1.6%, operating income increased 8.7% and operating margin increased to 26.1% from 24.4%.
Bell Canada has taken a restructuring charge of approximately $985 million this quarter ($647 million after taxes) relating to the departure program consisting of a cash component of $314 million and $671 million representing the enhanced pension and other post-employment benefits offered in the packages.
Other Bell Canada The Other Bell Canada segment revenues of $486 million in the quarter were essentially flat compared to the same period last year driven primarily by the improvement in our wholesale business which achieved flat revenue growth in the quarter in contrast to the declines experienced in previous quarters this year.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-03-2004/0002353474&EDATE=   (13656 words)

  
 BCE's Bell Canada to become income trust - Boston.com
Telecommunications giant BCE Inc., whose stock is one of Canada's most widely held, is dissolving itself and converting key holding Bell Canada into the centerpiece of an income trust.
He said the BCE conglomerate, also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, was created in a different era with a different purpose that focused on diversification.
BCE is widely held by individual shareholders and pension funds and analysts had been waiting to see if Sabia would follow Telus's recent move to become an income trust.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/10/11/bces_bell_canada_to_become_income_trust?mode=PF   (450 words)

  
 Bell Canada Enterprises Inc
Bell Canada Enterprises Inc (BCE) is a communications company best known for its Bell Canada brand under which it provides local and long-distance service.
It is a transnational holding company whose subsidiaries operate primarily in the fields of Canadian telecommunications, directories, telecommunications manufacturing, and research and development.
In 2003 BCE ranked eighth among Canadian publicly traded corporations, with $1.8 billion in profit.
thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000662   (88 words)

  
 CTVglobemedia, Bell Globemedia and BCE: Overview
Toronto-based CTVglobemedia Inc is a rebadging of the Bell Globemedia group, which as of 2004 was 70% owned by telecommunications giant Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) and 30% by Thomson.
BCE unsurprisingly abandoned its conversion plans, announcing sale of its Telesat arm (for C$3.25bn) and plans to eliminate the BCE holding company structure, with the Bell Canada name being used in all operations.
BCE is Canada's 14th-largest enterprise by revenue and in 2001 was 1st by profit.
www.ketupa.net /bce.htm   (881 words)

  
 Globeinvestor.com: BELL CANADA ENTERPRISES REPORTS FIRST QUARTER RESULTS
BNP Paribas (Canada) Lawsuit As indicated in the BCE 2004 AIF, a lawsuit was filed by BNP Paribas (Canada) in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on December 23, 2004 against BCE Inc. and five former directors of Teleglobe.
Teleglobe Unsecured Creditors Lawsuit As indicated in the BCE 2004 AIF, a lawsuit was filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware against BCE Inc. and the former directors and officers of Teleglobe and certain of its subsidiaries on May 26, 2004.
Bell Canada's and the other incumbent telephone companies' flexibility to compete could be adversely affected in the event that the CRTC, in its decision, establishes onerous conditions to be satisfied in order for the incumbent telephone companies to obtain regulatory forbearance of residential and business local exchange services.
www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CNW/20050504/1305044275   (13946 words)

  
 Fitch Assigns 'A' Rating to Bell Canada Debt - Technology - RedOrbit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The ratings for BCE and Bell Canada reflect Bell Canada's dominant market position, supported by a stable regulatory climate, sizable cash generation, considerable nonstrategic assets, and growth in Bell Canada's consumer segment, balanced against the competitive pressures in the local, data, and long-distance segments as well as regulatory rulings, which have pressured margins.
However, Bell Canada has significantly less exposure to wireless compared with that of its peers, as Fitch believes wireless is an increasingly important and growing offset to the fixed-line losses caused by competitive pricing, VoIP substitution, and wireless substitution.
Bell Canada derives 18% of its revenues from wireless compared with an average of approximately 40% for a U.S. ILEC and TELUS Corp.
www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=241703&source=r_technology   (558 words)

  
 Bell Canada Enterprises reports third quarter results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Bell Canada achieved solid revenue performance in the quarter with video, wireless, Internet and the Business segment all contributing to revenue growth that more than offset the declines from the company's legacy business.
Bell is serving as the systems integrator for this project which will allow the Airport to provide one of the most technologically advanced passenger experiences in Canada.
Within the Other Bell Canada segment, while the market remains challenging for our wholesale business, revenue grew as a result of the acquisition of the wholesale operations of 360networks Corporation (360networks), which was acquired in November 2004, and the sale of access capacity.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/11-02-2005/0004206187&EDATE=   (8546 words)

  
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Bell Canada served primarily the populated areas of Quebec and Ontario, but it also operated exchanges in the Atlantic provinces, and at one time operated exchanges in provinces west of Ontario (Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta).
Prior to 1970, Bell Canada also used the *same* older Bell logo (the one which looked more realistically like an actual bell) however the words "Bell Canada" were written inside of the bell instead of the words "Bell System".
Bell Canada and GTE's British Columbia Telephone Company have been federally regulated for decades, while the individual dominant provincial telcos of TCTS (Telecom Canada, now Stentor) were regulated by their own provincial regulatory agencies.
www.hackcanada.com /telco/stentor_bellcanada.txt   (4112 words)

  
 Bell Telephone Company of Canada
Bell Canada and its nine operating subsidiaries serve most of the eastern half of Canada, together accounting for 70 per cent of Canada's 11.7 million telephones.
Bell Canada's manufacturing subsidiary, Northern Electric, serves a substantial portion of the Canadian equipment market, and Bell Northern Research, held jointly by Bell Canada and Northern Electric, is the research and development arm for both companies.
Bell Canada is majority owned by BCE Inc., a holding company which also owns Nortel and other telecom companies.
www.porticus.org /bell/canadian_bell_companies.html   (4615 words)

  
 Bell Canada Enterprises reports its second quarter 2003 results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Excluding the impacts of the sale of Bell Canada's directories business on November 29, 2002, and the May 30, 2002 CRTC Price Cap decision, BCE's total revenue growth for the quarter was 2.8% and total EBITDA growth for the quarter was 6.5%.
BCE EMERGIS - Revenue was $124 million in the second quarter, a decrease of $18 million compared with the same period in 2002.
Bell Canada's reported statutory revenue was $4.3 billion in the second quarter of 2003, up 18% due to the consolidation of Aliant and Bell ExpressVu effective January 1, 2003.
www.forrelease.com /D20030730/mo188.P1.07302003060722.18143.html   (3186 words)

  
 Bell creates new unit to impress enterprises
Bell Canada is creating three new divisions and consolidating its corporate functions with its parent company, Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. (BCE) as part of a strategy to better serve its customers.
As of June 1, the Enterprise division is headed by Isabelle Courville, who was president and CEO of Bell Nordiq Group Inc., which administers the Bell Nordiq Income Fund.
While Bell transitions to these new units over the coming weeks, the company says there will be no impact on service to customers, and for the most part business clients will be served by their usual sales reps.
www.itworldcanada.com /a/Network-World/78f97aa1-e757-4c7f-9399-41446af7346c.html   (1415 words)

  
 ExtendMedia > News > BCE Brings Combobox to Final Stage of Development
Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) today announced it has successfully entered the final stage of development of its ComboBox convergence product, working with ExtendMedia to integrate a variety of applications that will provide BCE customers with easy access to a suite of advanced interactive services.
BCE has contracted ExtendMedia to assist with a review and analysis of current and emerging interactive technologies, applications and services that make effective use of new media properties to deepen the customer connection to the BCE brand.
BCE leverages those connections with extensive content creation capabilities through Bell Globemedia which features some of the strongest brands in the industry - CTV, Canada's leading private broadcaster, The Globe and Mail, Canada's National Newspaper, and Sympatico-Lycos and Globe Interactive, which jointly have the largest Canadian presence on the web.
www.extend.com /news/2001.10.31-press-combobox.html   (632 words)

  
 VMware Success Story | Bell Canada and CGI Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Quigley explains that Bell Canada needed a lockdown environment that would accommodate “fat clients.” For example, if a bank needed to change its phone lines, Bell Canada would extend its LAN to the building, and enable a few people to work in a locked room because of security requirements.
Bell Canada considered getting 400 desktop computers, power feed and data connections to reside in the datacenter on racks.
Bell Canada is able to manage thousands of desktop environments from its datacenter.
www.vmware.com /customers/stories/bell_canada.html   (1115 words)

  
 ISP Planet - Resources - BackBone Guide - Bell Canada
Bell Canada's backbone network serves U.S. and international ISPs with a focus on reliability.
The Bell Canada Carrier Services Group is the wholesale division of Bell Canada Enterprises.
As a standalone business within Bell Canada, separated from the company's retail operation, the Carrier Services Group is set up specifically to provide services to customers on an impartial and confidential basis.
www.isp-planet.com /resources/backbones/bell_canada.html   (307 words)

  
 Bell Canada: Broadband Leader Delivers Value-added Services with Simplicity Built-in
Bell Canada is the main subsidiary of Canada’s largest communications company, Bell Canada Enterprises, and provides local telephone, long distance, wireless communications, Internet access, data, satellite television and other services to residential and business customers via some 26 million customer connections.
For Bell Canada, becoming adept at determining what is easy and simple for customers of varying skill levels required adapting its research methodology.
The collaboration between Bell Canada and Motive recently proved to be instrumental when Bell Canada launched MSN Premium last year and had to migrate hundreds of thousands of subscribers onto the MSN service.
www.motive.com /newsevents/presskit/casestudies/bellcanada.asp   (1672 words)

  
 Order Management Systems: Order Management Cycle Programs with Bell Canada and Accenture
Bell Canada is also the leading Canadian provider of global services for large private and public sector organizations, delivering network-based, fully managed, end-to-end solutions through their industry-leading product and service lines.
The IP VPN Enterprise was chosen as one of the first services to be launched on the new IOM platform due to the complexity of the system requirements and the immediate need to respond to the market demand for diverse eCmmerce capabilities.
An important goal was to ensure that Bell Canada would be able to maintain and grow the IOM platform using in-house resources and skills acquired through working side-by-side with the Accenture team.
www.accenture.com /Global/Services/By_Industry/Communications/Client_Successes/BellServices.htm   (861 words)

  
 News @ Cisco: Bell Canada Connects to the Future
In April 2001, Bell Canada introduced its IP VPN solution, based on the Layer 3 packet-routing efficiencies of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), a key feature of Cisco Internet Operating System (IOS) software.
Bell Canada's IP VPN Enterprise service provides customers with secure, flexible, scalable, high-speed, private networks over Bell Canada's IP backbone.
Indeed, Bell Canada is continuing to pioneer next-generation Internet capabilities and connect enterprises to the world.
newsroom.cisco.com /dlls/global/canada/news/2002/cp_04-01.html   (1019 words)

  
 Bell Mobility Experiences   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Although I received no warning about this change I was told that Bell reserves the right to change this policy even though representatives I talked to in February and March had encouraged me to wait for the replacement phone offer.
This ensures that they continue to be Bell customer’s upon completion of their contract and by word of mouth inform their friends of Bell ’s exceptional service.
I was not surprised to discover that of the 25 Bell Customers that work in my office all 25 of them have had horrible experiences and plan to sign on with a different provider as soon as their contract terminates.
www.canadiancontent.net /mobile/bell_mobility/experience2.php   (1267 words)

  
 Bell Canada
Bell Canada Enterprises is Canada's largest communications company.
Through their main subsidiary Bell Canada, they provide local telephone, long distance, wireless communications, Internet access, data, satellite television and other services to residential and business customers through some 26 million customer connections.
Bell Canada is using Motive products to provide its Sympatico DSL customers with a faster and easier pre-qualification and self-installation process, as well as improving the overall customer experience with self- and assisted support tools.
www.motive.com /customers/bios/bio.asp?customer=bellcanada   (95 words)

  
 Bell Canada Enterprises reports second quarter results
In June 2005, Bell Canada and the Government of Alberta (GOA) entered into a new agreement whereby completion of the construction of a next- generation network (SuperNet) and service acceptance by the GOA is scheduled for September 2005.
Similarly, Bell Canada EBITDA increased by 1.0% versus Q2 2004 to reach $1,839 million in the quarter, while on a year-to-date basis EBITDA was up 2.2% to $3,654 million, reflecting revenue improvements in wireless and video, offset by lower local and access and data revenues within our wholesale operations.
Other Bell Canada segment revenues of $485 million for Q2 2005 and $964 million for the first two quarters of this year, reflected increases of $17 million, or 3.6%, and $22 million, or 2.3%, respectively, compared with the same periods last year.
www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/2005/aug/1169654.htm   (13042 words)

  
 Stentor, Bell Canada, Independents - Some History
Bell Canada and Northern Electric also had a licensing arrangement with ATandT's Bell Labs.
In 1971, Bell Canada and NECO merged their RandD facilities in a new organization, Bell Northern Research (BNR).
In 1983, Bell Canada, NECO and BNR were placed under the holding company, Bell Canada Enterprises, now known as BCE Inc. The Atlantic province telcos are now owned by holding companies, which BCE owns stock in, including Bruncor (which owns NBTel), MTandT in Nova Scotia, and NewTel (formerly Newfoundland Telephone).
www.hackcanada.com /canadian/phreaking/canfonehist.html   (4090 words)

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