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The federal and Ontario governments on Monday announced an investment of over $13 million to expand high-speed internet in Ontario. The contract will see Bell Canada implement high-speed internet for over 6,400 homes in Arnprior, Braeside, Burnstown, Carp, Constance Bay, Dunrobin, Fitzroy Harbour, Glasgow Station, Kinburn, Marathon Village and White Lake. The announcement is part...

Bell and Virgin Plus have kicked off roaming price increases today, one day after similar hikes came from Telus and Koodo. Roam Better from Bell and Roam Sweet Roam from Virgin Plus are now priced at $13/day for U.S. and $16/day for international travel, up from $12 and $15 per day respectively. These daily roaming...

Bell and Rogers are offering up a promo plan right now at $60 per month with 15GB of non-shareable data. Data speeds for these limited-time promo plans are at up to 150 Mbps on 4G LTE. Both plans include unlimited nationwide calling and SMS/MMS within Canada. Bell says data overages are billed at $20/1GB for...

Today, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada announced a joint investment with Ontario government to expand rural internet in the province at the cost of over $61 million. There will be six projects to bring high-speed internet to over 16,000 homes in 47 rural Ontario communities, along with 3 First Nations communities in Northern Ontario....

Bell and two other major telcos are allegedly overcharging Canadians for 9-1-1 services by operating two emergency communications systems at the same time

Ahead of spring break, roaming charges are going up, as we previously detailed with Telus Easy Roam. For Bell customers, the latter’s Roam Better service is also going up in price, slated for March 9, 2023, one day after Telus will hike its prices too. Bell Roam Better allows customers to use talk, text and...

Opensignal found the three national telecom operators tied for both 5G Reach and 5G Availability in its "Coverage" category

Independent internet service provider TekSavvy recently started a Facebook ad campaign showcasing “big telecoms web of brands” in Canada, showing how Rogers, Telus, Bell and Videotron own numerous smaller companies. "Who REALLY owns your provider? It might surprise you,” says TekSavvy, noting it is "one of the last independent ISPs." "We fight to keep Canada’s...

Erica Phillips was getting daily calls from collections agencies to pay a massive Bell Mobility bill she had been stuck with after someone stole her identity

Yesterday, Telus and Koodo announced they were waiving long distance and roaming charges to Turkey and Syria, following two devastating earthquakes affecting both countries. Rogers/Fido and Bell/Virgin Plus have also announced they are waiving long distance calls and texts sent from Canada to Turkey and Syria. Update Feb. 8: Rogers told iPhone in Canada in...

Bell posted quarterly operating revenues of $6.439 billion across all of its segments, up 3.7% year-over-year from Q4 2021, with a net income of $567 million

Staples Canada and Bell announced a multi-year exclusive agreement on Tuesday, to sell Bell, Virgin Plus and Lucky Mobile wireless and wireline services at Staples stores across Canada for both consumers and small businesses. Both companies will also partner to sell Bell services to medium businesses through the Staples Professional sales team. Beginning in late...