Bell Canada and AIG, the American insurance group, obviously thought it was positive.
At almost every turn Rogers is confronting his nemesis, BCE, the equally acquisitive Montreal-based holding company that owns Bell Canada.
Bondholders of BCE, the parent of Bell Canada, argued that the deal would load the company up with debt, curbing the value of their holdings.
The offer represented a 40.9% premium from where BCE, formerly known as Bell Canada Enterprises, was trading in late March, prior to the onset of buyout rumors.
Customer-service representatives at Bell Mobility, the wireless unit of Bell Canada, can make instant offers based on a customer's calling patterns, his age and the way similar customers have reacted to such offers.
There will always be a huge gap in team values because telecommunications companies like Rogers and Bell Canada can leverage the media rights for the Maple Leafs multiples of what Stillman can command in media fees for the Blues.
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Bell Mobility: An Android 4.0 release schedule was leaked this week that pertains to a handful of phones and tablets available from Bell Mobility in Canada.
Palm Pre also is scheduled to debut in Canada with Bell Mobility in the second half of 2009.
In 1919, at the age of 72, Bell set a marine speed record of 70.86mph on the Bras d'Or Lakes with his HD-4 hydrofoil, a replica of which resides, along with many of his personal artifacts, in the museum of the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada, across the lake from his house.
The LG Optimus L5 is now available from both Bell Mobility and Virgin Mobile in Canada.
Today''s announcement from RIM builds on the recent deployment of mobile payments in Canada by EnStream, a joint venture of Bell, Rogers and TELUS, which uses RIM''s SEM solution.
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