Bell Canada Enterprises is Canada's largest communications company. Under one corporate roof and one corporate brand, we have assembled the capabilities and breadth of expertise that today's customers seek.
Through our main subsidiary, Bell Canada, we 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.
We offer a full range of wireless communications services including cellular, PCS, paging and wireless access to Internet through our mobile browser service. In 2002, Bell was the first company to launch a high-speed wireless network, enabling customers to transmit data at speeds of up to 86 Kbps, five times faster than before. Bell now leads the market in wireless, satellite TV and high-speed Internet.
Since 1997, Bell ExpressVu has delivered DTH (Direct-to-Home) satellite television services to Canadian homes and businesses. We are Canada's largest licensed DTH distributor of digital programming, offering more than 300 digital television and CD-quality audio channels, as well as over 50 pay-per-view channels.
Through Bell Sympatico, we provide high-speed and dial-up Internet access to residential customers in our incumbent territories. We also offer a full range of data services to business customers, including local network access, Internet access, frame relay, ATM Internet Protocol (IP)/broadband and
e-commerce services, as well as sales of equipment. Our Managed Network Solutions offers a single source for delivery and management of end-to-end business communication services.
Bell Globemedia is Canada's largest media company. It provides TV, print and Internet content through some of Canada's most recognized media brands. Bell Globemedia delivers trusted information and analysis from The Globe and Mail and CTV, two of the country's leading news organizations. It also delivers the most watched sports and entertainment programs from the leading broadcasters, including TQS, a French-language network operating in Quebec. With a leading presence in specialty channels like TSN, RDS, The Discovery Channel and Canal Évasion, it is also behind the most visited Canadian Web portals and Web sites. With stations, news bureaus and offices in all of Canada's major cities, Bell Globemedia employees are connected to local communities, ensuring that what interests Canadians - locally, nationally and internationally - makes it to the screen, into print and onto the Internet. More than $285-million over seven years has been allocated for the creation of new programming and support for organizations, educational institutions and associations in our industry.
The customer is key to all our operations. We are strengthening our culture of productivity, simplifying our operations and leveraging our own skills and those of our partners to deliver the world's most advanced, value-added services to Canadians.
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