Whois & Analysis for bell.ca

Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications and media company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.

Its subsidiaries include Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, Dryden Municipal Telephone Service and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL Internet services in most of Canada east of Manitoba and in the northern territories, and a major competitive local exchange carrier for enterprise customers in the western provinces.

Its subsidiary Bell Mobility (including Virgin Mobile Canada) is one of Canada's "big three" mobile telecommunications providers, while Bell TV provides direct-to-home satellite TV service.

Bell Canada's principal competitors are Rogers Communications Canada in Ontario and Vidéotron General Partnership and Telus in Quebec.

The company serves over 13 million phone lines and is headquartered at the Campus Bell complex in Montreal.

Wi-Fi or WiFi is a technology for wireless local area networking with devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards.

Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance, which restricts the use of the term Wi-Fi Certified to products that successfully complete interoperability certification testing.

A landline telephone (also known as land line, land-line, main line, home phone, landline, fixed-line, and wireline) refers to a phone that uses a metal wire or fibre optic telephone line for transmission as distinguished from a mobile cellular line, which uses radio waves for transmission.

High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two mobile protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunication networks using the WCDMA protocols.

A further improved 3GPP standard, Evolved High Speed Packet Access (also known as HSPA+), was released late in 2008 with subsequent worldwide adoption beginning in 2010.

The newer standard allows bit-rates to reach as high as 337 Mbit/s in the downlink and 34 Mbit/s in the uplink.

However, these speeds are rarely achieved in practice.

A telephone company, also known as a telco, telephone service provider, or telecommunications operator, is a kind of communications service provider (CSP) (more precisely a telecommunications service provider or TSP) that provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access.

Many telephone companies were at one time government agencies or privately owned but state-regulated monopolies.

The government agencies are often referred to, primarily in Europe, as PTTs (postal, telegraph and telephone services).