- Next-generation IPTV services among the fastest growing
products in Bell's 135-year history
- Innovations like Restart and Wireless TV have changed the game
in Canadian television
MONTRÉAL, April 17, 2015 /CNW
Telbec/ - Bell today announced it now serves 1 million IPTV
customers, making Fibe TV and FibreOP TV among the fastest growing
product lines in Bell's 135-year history. With both next-generation
IPTV and national Satellite TV, Bell has quickly become the
second-largest television provider in Canada with more than 2.65 million TV
customers.
"Bell TV is seeing phenomenal growth as more and more households
make the move from cable to the best TV service available anywhere.
Clearly, more Canadians are switching to Bell Fibe than are cutting
the TV cord," said Rizwan Jamal,
President of Bell Residential Services. "With innovative features
like Whole Home PVR, Wireless TV, CraveTV and the unique new
Restart function, Bell has reinvented television – and the numbers
show that consumers have welcomed Bell's better TV experience."
With the fast growth of Fibe TV in Ontario and Québec and FibreOP TV in
Atlantic Canada, Bell's IPTV
coverage footprint has now reached 6.1 million homes, up from 5.1
million at the start of 2014. Fibe is also making significant
inroads with small and medium business as medical and dental
offices, restaurants, repair shops and other customer-service
focused businesses switch to Fibe TV to entertain and inform their
customers.
With service established in major cities across 6 provinces,
Bell is now bringing next-generation IPTV to mid-sized and smaller
communities ranging from Peterborough,
Ontario to Shawinigan,
Québec, from Bouctouche, New
Brunswick to Liverpool, Nova
Scotia to Bay Roberts,
Newfoundland and Labrador
among the many new locations to be added in 2015.
Bell is Canada's leader by far in communications research,
development and infrastructure deployment, investing more than
$3.5 billion each year to deliver
world-leading broadband fibre and mobile services to Canadians
everywhere.
Leadership through TV innovation
Since its launch at
the Toronto International Film
Festival in September 2010, Bell Fibe
has introduced non-stop innovation to Canadian TV.
Wireless TV lets customers watch HD TV anywhere in their home
from up to 5 additional TVs. CraveTV is Canada's superior TV video
streaming service, offering full series and seasons of the most
loved and celebrated TV shows, available from Bell on TV, tablets
or smartphones for just $4 per
month.
And the latest innovation from Fibe is the exclusive Restart
feature: which lets customers rewind and watch TV shows already in
progress from the beginning on more than 170 channels, including
CBC, CTV, Global, HBO Canada, Super Channel and TSN. Now available
to all Fibe customers, Restart is clearly a hit with more than 3
million hours of live TV already restarted. To learn more, please
visit Bell.ca/Fibe.
About Bell
Bell is Canada's largest communications
company, providing consumers and business customers with wireless,
TV, Internet, home phone and business communications services. Bell
Media is Canada's premier multimedia company with leading assets in
television, radio, out of home, and digital media. Bell is wholly
owned by Montréal's BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE). For more
information, please visit Bell.ca.
The Bell Let's Talk initiative promotes Canadian mental health
with national awareness and anti-stigma campaigns, like Clara's Big
Ride for Bell Let's Talk and Bell Let's Talk Day, and significant
Bell funding of community care and access, research, and workplace
initiatives. To learn more, please visit Bell.ca/LetsTalk.
Media inquiries:
Jason Laszlo
1-855-614-6602
jason.laszlo@bell.ca
@Bell_News
SOURCE Bell Canada