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Bell Launches Business Wi-Fi App in Ontario and Quebec
Bell has launched its Bell Business Wi-Fi App for small businesses in Ontario and Quebec, which lets small business easily manage their network. The Bell Business Wi-Fi App from California-based partner Plume, offers enhanced security with three separate Wi-Fi zones, providing increased protection for business, employee, and customer internet usage. It features an easy guest...
Toronto Power Outage Affecting Internet, TV, Home Phone Services
There’s a heavy rainstorm in Toronto right now that’s resulted in a major power outage, with Toronto Hydro scrambling to bring people back online. Many people online are reporting massive queues for reporting outages, with one noting the online support queue had reached beyond 11,000 people, while some noted estimates said power would not be...
Telus Increases Price of All 5G+ Unlimited Plans
Telus had some “promotional” plans that were set to end of July 14, and as of today, the company has increased the price of its premium 5G+ plans, which have the fastest download speeds of up to 2 Gbps. Check out the changes below: $35 talk and text $65/75GB (new activations only) - 5G Essential...
Rogers, Telus, and Bell Stocks Drop to Multi-Year Lows
Canada’s ‘Big 3’ telecoms, Rogers, Telus, and Bell, have seen their stock prices plummet to multi-year lows, driven by competitive wireless strategies that have failed to impress investors, reports Bloomberg. The S&P/TSX Composite’s communications index has fallen nearly 16% since January. Rogers and Telus stocks are trading near 2016 levels, while Bell's shares are at...
Bell Must Pay Man $1,000 for Poor Customer Service, Rules Court
Bell has been ordered by a Quebec Court judge to pay a Montreal customer $1,000 after determining the he experienced a “Kafkaesque” ordeal when trying to cancel his satellite TV plan. Judge Luc Huppé criticized Bell’s customer service process that was endured by Gilles Tessier in spring 2019, calling it unnecessarily burdensome. “Requiring a customer...
Bell Acquires Stratejm, CloudKettle for Enterprise Cloud Solutions
Bell announced today the acquisition of technical services firms Stratejm and CloudKettle Inc., enhancing its professional and managed services in cybersecurity and Salesforce. With these additions, Bell aims to offer enterprises a better AI-powered end-to-end customer experience, leveraging its pure fibre and 5G networks, to help medium and large companies transition to digital and automation...
Bell Price Hike: Select ‘Winback’ Plans Increasing in September
The wireless price hikes keep coming, as Bell recently informed customers on select ‘winback’ plans (exclusive deals offered to lure you back to the company) an increase is happening on September 1, 2024. According to an email shared by an iPhone in Canada reader, Bell explains the $40/100GB plan is going up by $6/month on...
Bell Seeks Injunction to Block Rogers from Warner Bros. Content
Bell Media has filed for an injunction to prevent Rogers from broadcasting Warner Bros. Discovery content for two years. This move comes as Rogers is set to take over the Canadian rights to that programming in January 2025. Bell submitted a court application on June 19, claiming that the licensing agreement announced nine days earlier...
Bell and Virgin Fixing International Roaming Outage
Bell is actively addressing a widespread wireless outage affecting its customers roaming internationally, as reported by the company in updates shared over recent days. Today, June 29, Bell provided an update to say, "We are continuing to make good progress on the intermittent service disruption affecting customers traveling internationally that has been impacting multiple wireless...
New on Crave: July 2024
Bell has shared its list of what’s new on Crave for July 2024. Highlights include the movie premiere of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, plus the HBO original documentary Quad Gods. Also new in July is the fourth season of Snowpiercer and the movie premiere of The Book of Clarence. As expected with summer...
Bell Opens First Best Buy Express Retail Store
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 Offers $30/40GB 5G Plan to Select Lucky Mobile Customers
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...