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Back in January, Bell and Best Buy announced a partnership where both companies would operate new Best Buy Express stores from rebranded The Source locations (owned by Bell). Today, the first Best Buy Express store has opened in Canada, taking place in B.C.’s Lower Mainland. According to Bell, the first location is at Guildford Town...

Bell’s prepaid brand Lucky Mobile recently added 500MB of 4G LTE to its entry $15 plan. The $15 plan includes 100 nationwide minutes but if you sign up for automatic top-up, you will get 500MB of data. That’s a cheap plan for someone who needs an emergency phone line or just the odd phone call....

Bell’s flanker brand Virgin Plus looks to be giving free 5G network upgrades to select customers on 4G LTE plans. The offer is shown when customers log into their accounts online. After logging into your Virgin Plus account online, head over to “Others” tab and you should see “5G Access” as an option, available as...

Bell looks to be offering a special 5G plan to select Lucky Mobile customers, the company’s prepaid brand. The enticing offer looks to be a way to switch customers over to a postpaid plan on Bell. The text message being sent out by Lucky Mobile to select customers reads, “Here’s an exclusive offer from our...

Bell has announced a strategic partnership aimed at developing advanced AI solutions with Mila. The collaboration seeks to improve customer experience, streamline business operations, and foster a robust AI ecosystem in Québec and Canada. This new partnership builds on an 18-month collaborative project where Mila and Bell applied deep learning neural network algorithms within Bell's...

Sixty North Unity, a consortium of Indigenous communities from the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, has announced plans to acquire Northwestel from Bell. Northwestel is the leading telecom in the North, and once the sale goes through, the latter will become the largest telecom company globally with full Indigenous ownership. "As Indigenous people, we have...

Quebecor has lodged a complaint with the Competition Bureau concerning an agreement between Loblaw and wireless carriers Bell and Rogers, through their joint venture Glentel, granting them exclusive selling rights at The Mobile Shop. This deal means Quebecor's Freedom Mobile would be excluded from 180 Loblaw-owned grocery stores, potentially increasing the telecom oligopoly's control to...

The Canadian Football League (CFL) and Bell Media have announced that the 111th Grey Cup will be broadcast on CTV on Sunday, November 17, for the first time. Starting on September 7, CFL Saturday afternoon games will be shown exclusively on CTV, with kickoff times moving from 4 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET. The coverage...

The flanker brands of Rogers, Telus and Bell—Fido, Koodo and Virgin Plus—have started to align their wireless plans again. Fido, Koodo and Virgin Plus all have the same $34/20GB plan for bring your own device, along with $39/40GB and $44/50GB plans. The differences lie in Fido offering a $54/60GB plan and Virgin Plus offering a...

Bell has announced the deployment of 3800 MHz spectrum in select areas of Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, boosting speeds on its 5G+ network. The new 3800 MHz spectrum acquired in 2023, is expected to provide even faster and more responsive mobile experiences, with theoretical peak download speeds reaching up to 4Gbps in select areas. Bell says...

Bell Media’s Crave has released its list of new titles coming to the streaming service in June 2024. Highlights include the STARZ original series Power Book II: Ghost, with its season premiere on June 7. Love Island USA is coming on June 11, while the biggest anticipated arrival is HBO’s House of the Dragon second...

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has urged the commissioner of the Competition Bureau to investigate a partnership between Canada’s largest grocery chain, Loblaw, and Glentel, which is owned by Rogers and Bell. “Loblaws isn’t content just ripping off Canadians when it comes to their groceries. Loblaws is teaming up with Rogers and Bell to rip off...