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== Services == [[File:BellCO31Finch4.JPG|thumb|A Bell Central Office in Toronto]] Bell Canada provides many different types of telecommunications services. ===Voice=== Bell Canada provides standard [[Plain Old Telephone Service|voice service]]. It used to offer [[VoIP]] to customers, branded as "Digital Voice". Businesses can still obtain VoIP service. It now offers <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://business.bell.ca/shop/small-business/total-connect|title=Phone service | Small Business | Bell Canada}}</ref> BTC (Bell Total Connect) SIP service as a digital voice package. ===Voicemail=== Bell Home Phone and [[Bell Mobility]] provide [[voicemail]] service as an optional feature for residences and businesses. Bell Prepaid customers, however, receive a basic voice mail at no additional charge. The complimentary voice mail can store five messages of one minute each, for up to five days. ===Wireless=== {{Main|Bell Mobility}} [[File:Vieux Limoilou, Québec city 03.jpg|thumb|Bell Mobility van]] [[Bell Mobility]] operates a [[Mobile phone|cellular]] network in all Canadian provinces. It also owns [[Virgin Mobile Canada]] {{As of|2009|05|lc=y|df=us}}. While it created the Solo Mobile brand in 1999, Bell shut down all standalone Solo stores in 2011 while discontinuing third-party sales of all Solo phones in November 2011. The brand continues to be active for its current customers, but there are no incentives to encourage new subscriptions. === Television === [[File:BellCanadaVan.JPG|thumb|left|A Bell Fibe Van]] Formerly known as ExpressVu, [[Bell Satellite TV]] is a [[satellite television]] service provider. There is also a mobile TV service, [[Bell Mobility#Mobile TV|Bell Mobile TV]], and a locked [[IPTV]] service known as [[Bell Fibe TV]] and [[Alt TV]]. The latter is available in most of [[Alberta]], British Columbia, the [[Greater Toronto Area]], [[Ottawa]], [[Montreal]], [[Quebec City|Québec City]] and Atlantic Canada. === Internet === [[Bell Internet]] provides high speed [[Digital subscriber line|DSL]] and fiber to the home [[FTTH]] Internet service in many areas where it offers phone service. DSL is offered in various speeds ranging from 500 kbit/s to 100 Mbit/s download and 256 kbit/s to 10 Mbit/s upload on DSL while up to 8 Gbit/s on fiber optic depending on what the local infrastructure can support. Bell began offering [[Fiber to the x|Fibre-to-the-node]] Internet access to some subscribers in 2010. Bell markets this service under the name "Fibe".<ref>{{cite web |title=Bell Fibe |url=http://www.bell.ca/shopping/PrsShpInt_Access.page |access-date=July 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110706165903/http://www.bell.ca/shopping/PrsShpInt_Access.page |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Many urban Fibe regions can access all speeds up to and including 50+mbps down and 15+mbps up but some rural Fibe regions can only obtain 16 Mbit/s down and 1 Mbit/s up. Non-Fibe regions are limited to legacy DSL technology, supporting speeds of up to 7 Mbit/s down and 1 Mbit/s up. Bell Canada has now rolled out Fibre to the Home services to certain subscribers across Eastern Canada, this service can provide guaranteed download of 3 Gbit/s and upload speeds of 3 Gbit/s. In August 2019, the company announced it would cut roughly 200,000 households from a rural internet expansion program after a federal regulator lowered wholesale broadband prices that major telecom companies can charge smaller internet providers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-canada-internet|title=Bell scales back rural internet plans after CRTC decision on rates|last=Bickis|first=Ian|date=August 19, 2019|website=CBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/top-three/bell-canada-cuts-fwa-rural-broadband-plan/|title=Bell Canada cuts FWA rural broadband plan|date=August 20, 2019|website=Mobile World Live|language=en-GB|access-date=August 29, 2019}}</ref> In a press release issued February 24, 2022, Bell announced that it has acquired Internet service provider EBOX. Bell wishes to keep the brand and the activities of EBOX and let the company continue to operate independently while remaining based in Longueuil.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/bell-acquires-longueuil-based-internet-provider-ebox-819104090.html|title=Bell acquires Longueuil-based Internet provider EBOX|website=newswire.ca|language=en-ca}}</ref> === Legacy === Bell previously offered Bell Home Monitoring, also known as Bell Gardium. Bell Canada also previously offered [[cable television]] services in the United Kingdom via '''Bell Cablemedia [[Public limited company|plc]]''' (a joint venture with [[Jones Intercable]] and [[Cable & Wireless plc]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.apollo.io/companies/Bell-Cablemedia-PLC/5ed0b19d922ba80001031282|title=Bell Cablemedia PLC - Overview, Competitors, and Employees|access-date=October 2, 2020|archive-date=March 31, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331145714/https://www.apollo.io/companies/Bell-Cablemedia-PLC/5ed0b19d922ba80001031282|url-status=dead}}</ref> from 1994 until 1997, when [[Vidéotron]] first sold its UK operations to Bell Cablemedia, after which Bell Cablemedia and the UK operations of [[NYNEX|NYNEX Corporation]] merged with Cable & Wireless plc to form [[Cable & Wireless Communications]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB845987368577989000|title=Cable & Wireless Plans Merger With Nynex, Bell Canada Units|publisher=www.wsj.com|date=October 23, 1996|access-date=October 2, 2020}}</ref>
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