Fastest result ever recorded as more Canadians connect to Bell's
all-fibre network
MONTRÉAL, June 20, 2018 /CNW
Telbec/ - Bell Canada today announced it has taken the top
spot in PCMag's "The Fastest ISPs of 2018: Canada," delivering
the highest overall Internet speed index ever recorded in
Canada to date by the magazine and
scoring more than 30% higher than our nearest competitor.
Atlantic Canada's Bell Aliant
also took second place in the speed tests while Manitoba's Bell MTS moved into the top 10 for
the first time. PCMag's conclusions were based on nearly 12,000
tests of Canadian Internet service providers large and small
between September 2017 and
June 2018.
"Bell's strategy to lead investment and innovation in Canada's
next-generation broadband networks is delivering the best Internet
experience to both consumers and business customers," said
Rizwan Jamal, President of Bell
Residential and Small Business. "With the fastest connections today
and the capacity to deliver the virtually unlimited broadband
speeds of the future, Bell's pure fibre network offers Canadians
access to the best Internet technology in the world."
Bell Fibe Internet service now offers symmetrical downloads and
uploads of up to 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) and is ready to
deliver speeds of 40 Gbps and beyond in future. At more than
240,000 total kilometres, Bell's fibre connections are Canada's
most extensive by far, linking homes and business throughout the
Atlantic provinces, Québec, Ontario and Manitoba.
With super-fast speeds and low latency, Bell's fibre network
significantly enhances the video streaming and gaming experience
and enables high-bandwidth cloud computing and other business
applications. Fibre connections also drive innovations like Bell's
Whole Home Wi-Fi service, which brings the smartest and fastest
Internet access to every room of the home, and the latest advances
in television with Fibe TV and Alt TV.
Bell all-fibre cities now include St.
John's, Gander,
Summerside, Charlottetown, Halifax, Sydney, Moncton and Fredericton in Atlantic Canada, Québec City, Trois-Rivières,
Saint-Jérôme and Gatineau in
Québec, Cornwall, Kingston, Toronto, North
Bay and Sudbury in
Ontario, and Steinbach and The
Pas in Manitoba, with more
locations to be announced in 2018. Bell unveiled its Montréal fibre
project in 2017 and is rapidly expanding direct fibre connections
throughout the GTA/905 region surrounding Toronto and extending to the US border.
Bell now serves more than 9.2 million homes and business
locations with fibre to the neighbourhood, including over 3.7
million locations with the fastest fibre to the premises (FTTP)
connections – a total expected to grow to 4.5 million by the end of
this year.
Investing more than $4 billion
each year in Canada's next-generation network infrastructure, Bell
delivers world-class fibre connections for both residential and
business customers, Canada's Best National Mobile Network with Bell
LTE, the country's largest network of state-of-the-art data hosting
and cloud computing centres, and leadership in the fast-growing
Internet of Things (IoT) marketplace. Bell Media is Canada's
premier content creation company with leading assets in television,
radio, out of home and digital media. Founded in Montréal in 1880,
Bell is wholly owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE). To learn more,
please visit Bell.ca or BCE.ca.
The Bell Let's Talk initiative promotes Canadian mental health
with national awareness and anti-stigma campaigns like Bell Let's
Talk Day and provides significant funding for community care and
access, research and workplace initiatives in every region of the
country. To learn more, please visit Bell.ca/LetsTalk.
Media inquiries:
Nathan Gibson
905-614-9596
nathan.gibson@bell.ca
@Bell_News
Investor inquiries:
Thane Fotopoulos
514-870-4619
thane.fotopoulos@bell.ca
SOURCE Bell Canada