hwt@uunet.uu.net (Henry Troup) (07/10/90)
In article <9541@accuvax.nwu.edu> root@joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. Mongeon) writes: >... you read this whole posting). The hotel is located in Ontario Canada >which means we have only one long distance supplier - Bell Canada (A >first cousin of AT&T). Not quite - Bell Canada is a 100% owned subsidiary of BCE, Inc. BCE is a public corporation, the most widely held in Canada. (Also the most profitable, and the payer of the largest corporate taxes.) AT&T divested Bell Canada in the 1960's - Northern Electric (now Northern Telecom) was then a $20M company producing Canadian-only hardware, frequently from Western Electric designs. The rest is history. Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions ..uunet!bnrgate!hwt%bwdlh490 HWT@BNR.CA 613-765-2337
root@joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. Mongeon) (07/12/90)
In article <9585@accuvax.nwu.edu> Henry Troup <bnrgate!bwdlh490. bnr.ca!hwt@uunet.uu.net> writes: >In article <9541@accuvax.nwu.edu> root@joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. >Mongeon) writes: >>which means we have only one long distance supplier - Bell Canada (A >>first cousin of AT&T). >Not quite - Bell Canada is a 100% owned subsidiary of BCE, Inc. BCE is How about "Wicked Step Sister" ? ||| Marcel D. Mongeon ||| e-mail: ... (uunet, maccs)!joymrmn!root or ||| joymrmn!marcelm