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Bell Aliant was the successor to Aliant Inc., formed from the 1999 merger of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company (MT&T), Island Telecom (which had been majority-owned by MT&T), Bruncor (parent of NBTel), and NewTel Enterprises (parent of NewTel Communications), then the four main incumbent telephone companies in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and ...
Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]
The Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company (MT&T, later MTT) was founded around 1910 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and provided telecommunications to Nova Scotia until 1998 when it merged with the Island Telephone Company, NBTel, and NewTel Communications to form Aliant (now Bell Aliant).
The incumbent local exchange carrier for area code 709 is Bell Aliant, which is owned by Bell Canada, which was formed in 1999 as a result of a merger that included NewTel Communications (previously Newfoundland Telephone). There had been as many as nine companies in Newfoundland and Labrador until 1951.
In the late 1990s, Newtel, Bruncorp, MT&T and Island Tel merged into Aliant, now Bell Aliant which owns many services in rural areas of Ontario and Quebec formerly owned by Bell Canada. On January 1, 2011, Bell acquired xwave from Bell Aliant for $40 million, an information technology company offering sales and services in Atlantic Canada. [23]
Bell Fibe TV is currently available in select areas of Ontario and Quebec. It is also available in Atlantic Canada and Manitoba via the Bell Aliant and Bell MTS subsidiaries respectively. FibreOP has been rebranded as Fibe. [6] There is constant ongoing expansion in provinces. Those noted being offered by Bell in Ontario and Quebec include:
Bell Aliant completed its purchase of DMTS on January 1, 2013. [2] Bell Aliant plans on continuing to use the DMTS brand name. Since 2016 it has been considered a subsidiary of BCE as Bell Aliant's operations were consolidated into those of Bell Canada. [3]
Bell Canada: Acquired by Bell Canada, September 2022 [4] Eastlink: Atlantic Canada: EBOX: Ontario; Quebec: Bell Canada: Acquired by Bell Canada, February 2022 [5] Everus Communications: Execulink Telecom: Fido: Rogers Communications: Fido no longer offers home internet plans (Dec 2023). Current customers are being migrated to the parent company ...