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Sidney Crosby donates gold medal winnings to charity - Bell Canada matches donation to the Sidney Crosby Foundation

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Bell Aliant files 2009 audited annual financial statements and MD&As

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Today Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund (Bell Aliant or the Fund) (TSX: BA.UN) announced the filing with Canadian securities regulators of the Fund's and Bell Aliant Regional Communications Holdings, LP's 2009 Audited Annual Consolidated Financial Statements and Management's Discussion and Analyses (MD&As) in respect of such statements. These documents are available on the Canadian Securities Administrators' website (www.sedar.com), and under the "Investors" section of Bell Aliant's website (www.bellaliant.ca), or can be requested by calling Bell Aliant directly at (877) 248-3113. About Bell Aliant Bell Aliant (TSX: BA.UN) is one of North America's largest regional communications providers and an Official Supporter of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Through its operating entities it serves customers in six Canadian provinces with innovative information, communication and technology services including voice, data, Internet, video and value-added business solutions. Through its xwave offices, Bell Aliant also provides IT professional services and advanced technology solutions. Bell Aliant's employees are committed to deliver the highest quality of customer service, choice and convenience.

Bell Aliant renews its support for Pee Wee hockey in Atlantic Canada

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Across Atlantic Canada, Pee Wee Hockey is reaching its pinnacle this month as young hockey players compete at the Bell Aliant Provincial Championship tournaments. Bell Aliant is supporting that spirit and helping to grow youth hockey in as it renews its commitment as title sponsor of Pee Wee hockey in Atlantic Canada. The agreement is in partnership with the four Provincial Hockey Associations and Hockey Canada's Atlantic Centre of Excellence. "We have enjoyed a great longstanding partnership with Pee Wee hockey and we look forward to continuing to build a strong Pee Wee hockey program for boys and girls across the region," says Joe Mosher, Vice President Marketing, Bell Aliant. "Over 8000 young hockey players, volunteers, coaches, families and community partners are involved and we are proud to do our part in helping build healthy minds and bodies in our youth across the region." David Curnew, Event Manager, with Hockey Canada's Atlantic Regional Centre said, "The 2010 Bell Aliant Atlantic Championships will be the culmination of a very exciting and eventful hockey season. Bringing together the best Pee Wee AAA hockey teams in the region to compete for an Atlantic championship will be a very special moment for these young athletes and one they will remember for a long time. We are very pleased to once again recognize another very successful year in Pee Wee hockey due in part to great supporters like Bell Aliant." The highlight of the Pee Wee AAA season will culminate with the Bell Aliant Pee Wee AAA Atlantics Championships to be hosted at the Redball Internet Centre in Moncton which will crown the best team representing all four provinces in Atlantic Canada. Bell Aliant's support of Pee Wee hockey extends to all levels including AAA, AA, A, B and Female Divisions. Throughout the month of March, 18 Bell Aliant Pee Wee Cup Provincial Championship tournaments will be taking place in rinks across Atlantic Canada as boys and girls alike strive to become provincial champions. Once again, Bell Aliant will provide live broadcasts of all games at the Bell Aliant Pee Wee AAA Atlantic Championships which will be streamed live on www.bellaliant.net/peeweehockey featuring the play by play of all the on ice action. About Bell Aliant Bell Aliant (TSX: BA.UN) is one of North America's largest regional communications providers and an Official Supporter of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Through its operating entities it serves customers in six Canadian provinces with innovative information, communication and technology services including voice, data, Internet, video and value-added business solutions. Through its xwave offices, Bell Aliant also provides IT professional services and advanced technology solutions. Bell Aliant's employees are committed to deliver the highest quality of customer service, choice and convenience. Tournament Schedule: NOVA SCOTIA

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.