Bell Canada, commonly shortened to Bell, is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Including its subsidiaries such as Bell Aliant, Northwestel it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone services in most of Canada east of Manitoba and in the northern territories, and a leading competitive local exchange carrier in the western provinces.
In a majority of its service territory, Bell Canada principal competition is Rogers Communications. Bell Canada currently services over 13 million phone lines. It is headquartered in Verdun, Montreal.
Bell Canada is the main remaining asset of BCE. BCE ranks number 224 on the Forbes Global 2000 list. In 2007, BCE accepted a purchase offer from a group led by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, but in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, the resulting corporate structure was deemed to not meet necessary solvency criteria, and the takeover was cancelled.
The current CEO is George Cope, who was appointed in July 2008.
Alexander Graham Bell, who resided increasingly for most of his life in Nova Scotia, Canada, received the master patent for the telephone in the United States in 1876.
Bell assigned 75% of the Canadian patent rights to his father, Melville Bell, who, with a friend, Reverend Thomas Henderson, leased pairs of wooden hand telephones for use on private lines constructed by the client from, a store to a nearby warehouse, or from a business to an executive residence.
The two gave a license to Hugh Cossart Baker. to lease telephones in Ontario. In 1879 Melville Bell sold the rights to National Bell Telephone Company in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and thus officially became one of the first regional operating companies of what was to become the Bell System.
Charles Fleetford Sise, a Chicago businessman, was brought in as general manager, and The Bell Telephone Company of Canada. was founded in 1880. With a government granted monopoly on Canadian long distance telephone service, The Bell Telephone Company serviced 237,000 subscribers by 1914.
Since the early years of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, it was known colloquially as The Bell. On March 7, 1968, Canadian law renamed The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, as Bell Canada
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