executive Charles Fleetford Sise from Chicago who served as its first general manager. That same year the Canadian division was renamed to "The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd.", eventually to be headed by U.S. In 1879 Bell's father sold his Canadian rights to the National Bell Telephone Company, formed in Boston, Massachusetts earlier that year by the merger of the Bell Telephone Company and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which in 1880 reorganized as the American Bell Telephone Company, initiating the Bell System. įor a few years, the senior Bell and his friend and business associate Reverend Thomas Philip Henderson collected royalties from the lease of telephones to customers in the limited late-1870s Canadian market, who either operated their own private telephone lines or subscribed to a third party telecommunications service provider. This order could not be fulfilled due to surging demand in the United States. in exchange for 1,000 telephones to be provided to the Canadian market. Bell also patented it in Canada and transferred 75% of the Canadian patent rights to his father, Alexander Melville Bell, with the remaining 25% being awarded to Boston telephone manufacturer Charles Williams Jr. His device later adopted the name now used worldwide, the telephone. In March 1876 he successfully patented his invention in the United States under the title of "Improvement In Telegraphy" ( U.S. In the mid-1870s Alexander Graham Bell, who was Scottish-born but lived in Canada, invented an analogue electromagnetic telecommunication device that could simultaneously transmit and receive human speech. The Bell Telephone Company of Canada logo with maple leaves, 1922–1940 However, unlike the other regional Bell operating companies, Bell Canada had its own research and development labs. 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. 1.2.3 Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.1.2 Competition and territory reduction.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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