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Bell network delivers golden Games to Canada and the world

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Bell, a Premier National Partner and the Exclusive Telecommunications Partner to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, is proud to have delivered the most-watched Winter Games in history to Canada and the world. From February 12 to 28, every image seen on TV, every story read around the world and every real-time score transmitted during the Games traversed a communications solution designed and delivered by Bell. "The Bell team rose to the extraordinary challenge of connecting the 2010 Winter Games and bringing these 17 glorious Canadian days to the billions of people watching around the world too," said George Cope, President and CEO of Bell Canada. "The leadership role Bell played in delivering Canada's Games drove communications innovation in this country to new heights. By exceeding the immensely high communications standards of an Olympic event, we've provided an incredible legacy of increased broadband connectivity for British Columbia." As the first telecommunications partner to deliver both wireless and wireline connectivity to an Olympic Games, Bell successfully executed all critical network and communications services at Vancouver 2010, including enhanced high-speed wireless data and fibre broadband networking, complete broadcast support, extensive Internet portal services and full network security. The 2010 Winter Games network supported the communications needs of an estimated 250,000 visitors, almost 6,500 athletes and officials, 50,000 staff and volunteers, and more than 10,000 members of the Canadian and international media. Bell's Olympic network delivered over 24,000 hours of broadcast coverage to more than three and a half billion viewers around the world according to the International Olympic Committee - the most in Olympic history, and a 50 per cent increase over the 2006 Winter Games in Torino and a 25 per cent increase over the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. "Bell has been a superb telecommunications partner, formulating a detailed and innovative plan, continually meeting its commitments and successfully helping VANOC deliver the 2010 Winter Games to the world," said John Furlong, Chief Executive Officer of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. "Bell truly lived up to our expectations and to its reputation as Canada's communications leader." Said Justin Webb, Vice President of Olympic Services for Bell: "Not only did Bell have the telecommunications network Games-ready faster than in any host country before us, we were the first to build an entire Olympic Games network from scratch using state-of-the-art Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology, based around a 10 gigabyte backbone and almost 300 kilometres of fibre optic cable connecting Vancouver and Whistler and 130 Olympic venues and support sites across the region." Bell customers also had access to the company's new high-speed HSPA/HSPA+ wireless network, Canada's fastest and largest network, completed on time for the Games and - for the first time in Olympic history - offering mobile users across Canada a virtual front row seat to the 2010 Winter Games with live mobile Olympic coverage from seven television networks.

Canadian carriers complete trials of two-way wireless video calling

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Canadian mobile phone users are one step closer to video calling friends, family, and clients across competing mobile networks as Bell, Rogers and TELUS today announced the successful completion of two-way mobile video calling trials between carriers.

Innovation by Bell and AudiSoft Technologies improves wound management through teleassistance for RUIS

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Bell today announced the implementation of a mobile teleassistance system enabling healthcare workers at the R�seau universitaire int�gr� de sant� (RUIS) de l'Universit� de Sherbrooke to obtain real-time assistance from specialists for wound management throughout its large territory.

Sir Richard Branson at Bell Ice Cube

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Join entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group, Bell Mobility president Wade Oosterman, and Olympic figure skating gold medalists Jamie Sal� and David Pelletier for an ice sculpture carving competition at Bell Ice Cube, the hottest public venue in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Games.

Bell TV first in Canada to provide Remote PVR to manage recordings using Internet and smartphones

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Bell today announced the launch of Remote PVR, a national service that enables Bell TV subscribers to schedule and manage their TV recordings from their Bell Mobility smartphones or any computer with an Internet connection.

Cheering just got better with Bell's Virtual Cowbell

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Bell today announced the launch of a free virtual Cowbell mobile application that Bell Mobility clients can download to help cheer on Canadian athletes competing at the 2010 Winter Games.