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From: bnrgate!.bnr.ca!hwt@uunet.uu.net (Henry Troup)
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Subject: Bell Canada
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In article <9541@accuvax.nwu.edu> root@joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D.
Mongeon) writes:

>... you read this whole posting).  The hotel is located in Ontario Canada
>which means we have only one long distance supplier - Bell Canada (A
>first cousin of AT&T).  

Not quite - Bell Canada is a 100% owned subsidiary of BCE, Inc. BCE is
a public corporation, the most widely held in Canada. (Also the most
profitable, and the payer of the largest corporate taxes.)

AT&T divested Bell Canada in the 1960's - Northern Electric (now
Northern Telecom) was then a $20M company producing Canadian-only
hardware, frequently from Western Electric designs.  The rest is
history.


Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions
 ..uunet!bnrgate!hwt%bwdlh490 HWT@BNR.CA 613-765-2337