Bell Canada Enterprises (TSX: BCE (http://www.tse.com/HttpController?GetPage=QuotesViewPage&QuoteSymbol_1=BCE)) (NYSE: BCE (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=BCE)) is a major telecommunications company and a provider of telephone services in Canada. The current president of Bell Canada is Michael Sabia. The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) is Canadas largest stock exchange, and the division of the TSX Group that holds senior equities. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the second largest stock exchange in the world. ... Telecommunication is the extension of communication over a distance. ... A telephone handset A touch-tone telephone dial Telephone This article is about telephone technology. ...

History

Alexander Graham Bell, who resided most of his life in Nova Scotia, Canada, was granted a US patent (#7,789) for the telephone in 1877. Graham Bell assigned 75% of the Canadian patent rights to his father, Melville Bell, who, with a friend, Reverend Thomas Henderson, started up a business of leasing pairs of wooden hand telephones for use on private lines constructed by the client from, for example, store to warehouse or home to office. The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd. (known as "The Bell", or "Bell Canada" for short) was founded in 1880 and granted a government monopoly on Canadian long distance telephone service. By 1914, the Bell Telephone Company serviced 237,000 subscribers. Bell Canada Enterprises logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and founder of the Bell Telephone Company. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (One defends and the other conquers) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant Governor Myra A. Freeman Premier John Hamm (PC) Area 55,283 km² (12th)  - Land 53,338 km²  - Water 1,946 km² (3. ... Wikiquote has quotations relating to: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government Official website of the United States government - Gateway to governmental sites White House - Official site of the US President Senate. ... A telephone handset A touch-tone telephone dial Telephone This article is about telephone technology. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Eventually there were two main companies in the telephone industry in Canada -- Bell Canada selling services and a division of AT&T, Northern Electric, making equipment. There was a parallel setup in the US -- AT&T selling phone services and Western Electric making the equipment. A telephone handset A touch-tone telephone dial Telephone This article is about telephone technology. ... AT&T (formerly an abbreviation for American Telephone and Telegraph) Corporation (NYSE: T) is an American telecommunications company. ... Northern Telecommunications Networks, commonly known as Nortel, is a telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Canada. ... Wikiquote has quotations relating to: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government Official website of the United States government - Gateway to governmental sites White House - Official site of the US President Senate. ... Western Electric (sometimes abbreviated WECo) was a US electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of the Bell Telephone Company from 1881 to 1984 . ...

In recent decades there have been a number of changes. Between 1980 and 1997, the telecommunications industry was fully deregulated and Bell Canada's monopoly ended, leaving it to provide local phone service only in Ontario and Quebec, not the rest of Canada. Because of the breakup of AT&T in the United States, Northern Electric became Northern Telecom, later renamed Nortel. Bell Canada currently services over 13 million phonelines, and functions under the brandname umbrella, "Bell". Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th)  - Land 917,741 km²  - Water 158,654 km² (14. ... This article describes the Canadian province. ... Northern Telecommunications Networks, commonly known as Nortel, is a telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Canada. ... Northern Telecommunications Networks, commonly known as Nortel, is a telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Canada. ...

The Future

Bell Canada has moved into new industries like Bell Sympatico, an Internet service provider, Bell Mobility, a cellular wireless service, and Bell ExpressVu, one of Canada's two national satellite television providers. The BCE corporation 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. Bell Sympatico is the consumer-side Internet service provider division of Bell Canada. ... An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... Bell Mobility is the division of Bell Canada which sells wireless services in Canada. ... Cellular redirects here. ... Bell ExpressVu is the division of Bell Canada which sells digital television services in Canada. ... Satellite television is television delivered by way of orbiting communications satellites located 37,000 km (22,300 miles) above the earths surface. ... CTV is a TLA that may stand for: CTV Television Network - a Canadian English language television network Channel Television - the main television broadcaster in the Channel Islands Chukyo TV. Broadcasting - a Japanese TV station in Nagoya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... The Globe and Mail is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ... Bell Globemedia is Canadas largest media corporation. ...

Other assets include satellite systems integrator Telesat Canada, Western Canada CLEC Bell West, and minority stakes in Aliant and IT service provider CGI. All in all, BCE partially or fully owns sixteen companies in the fields of telecommunications, media, and information technology. Telesat Canada is a Canadian satellite communications company owned by BCE Inc. ... A competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), is a telecommunications provider company (sometimes called a carrier) that competes with other, already established carriers (generally the incumbent). ... Aliant Inc. ...

Shifting their focus on IP, Bell has in recent years deployed MPLS on their nationwide fibre ring network in anticipation of upcoming consumer and enterprise-level IP applications, such as IPTV and VoIP. The Internet Protocol (IP) is a data-oriented protocol used by source and destination hosts for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork. ... In computer networking and telecommunications, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a data-carrying mechanism, operating at a layer below protocols such as IP. It was designed to provide a unified data-carrying service for both circuit-based clients and packet-switching clients which provide a datagram service model. ... Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has become a common denominator for systems where television and/or video signals are distributed to subscribers using a broadband connection over Internet Protocol. ... IP Telephony, also called Internet telephony, is the technology that makes it possible to have a telephone conversation over the Internet or a dedicated Internet Protocol (IP) network instead of dedicated voice transmission lines. ...

External links

• Bell Canada Official Website (http://www.bell.ca)
• Bell Canada Enterprises (http://www.bce.ca)
• CRTC chart of Bell Canada's assets (http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/title_org.htm#B)