News and offers, March 2010

• Bell network delivers golden Games to Canada and the world
• Bell network helps deliver a golden Paralympic Games

Bell network delivers golden Games to Canada and the world

VANCOUVER, March 1 2010 – Bell, a Premier National Partner and the Exclusive Telecommunications Partner to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, is proud to have delivered the most-watched Winter Games in history to Canada and the world. From February 12 to 28, every image seen on TV, every story read around the world and every real-time score transmitted during the Games traversed a communications solution designed and delivered by Bell.

"The Bell team rose to the extraordinary challenge of connecting the 2010 Winter Games and bringing these 17 glorious Canadian days to the billions of people watching around the world too," said George Cope, President and CEO of Bell Canada. "The leadership role Bell played in delivering Canada's Games drove communications innovation in this country to new heights. By exceeding the immensely high communications standards of an Olympic event, we've provided an incredible legacy of increased broadband connectivity for British Columbia."

As the first telecommunications partner to deliver both wireless and wireline connectivity to an Olympic Games, Bell successfully executed all critical network and communications services at Vancouver 2010, including enhanced high-speed wireless data and fibre broadband networking, complete broadcast support, extensive Internet portal services and full network security.

The 2010 Winter Games network supported the communications needs of an estimated 250,000 visitors, almost 6,500 athletes and officials, 50,000 staff and volunteers, and more than 10,000 members of the Canadian and international media. Bell's Olympic network delivered over 24,000 hours of broadcast coverage to more than three and a half billion viewers around the world according to the International Olympic Committee – the most in Olympic history, and a 50 per cent increase over the 2006 Winter Games in Torino and a 25 per cent increase over the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.

To view the full news release, please click here.

To learn more about how Bell delivered the first all-IP converged network at the Olympic Games, download the case study. You can also click here to request to be contacted by a Bell representative.

Bell network helps deliver a golden Paralympic Games

VANCOUVER, March 22 2010 – Bell, a Premier National Partner and the Exclusive Telecommunications Partner to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, is proud to have helped deliver a golden Paralympics Games to millions of Canadians, with full wireless and wireline network support - including critical two-way radio support - and record broadcast TV coverage.

"The Bell team is honoured to have been an integral partner to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, providing the end-to-end network and communications services that enabled both the Games' operations and the broadcast and online services that delivered a golden Vancouver 2010 to the world," said Justin Webb, Vice President of Olympic Services for Bell.

Every Paralympic and Olympic image seen on TV, every story read around the world and every real-time score transmitted during the Games was delivered on networks designed and delivered by Bell – networks that also provide a lasting legacy of enhanced broadband connectivity for British Columbia.

"Bell was VANOC's trusted telecommunications partner at both the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games," said John Furlong, Chief Executive Officer of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. "The Bell team successfully executed all the critical network and communications services required to deliver the Games to the world."

To view the full news release, please click here.

To learn more about how Bell delivered the first all-IP converged network at the Olympic Games, download the case study. You can also click here to request to be contacted by a Bell representative.