08 March 2010

Bell's highspeed digital network delivers impressive Olympic metrics

As the first telecommunications partner to deliver both wireless and wireline connectivity to an Olympic Games, Bell has announced it 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 3.5 billion viewers around the world according to the International Olympic Committee – the most in Olympic history.

Also for the first time in Olympic history, Bell customers had access to the company’s new high-speed HSPA/HSPA+ wireless network. Bell’s wireless network statistics for Vancouver 2010 include 90 million minutes of mobile voice traffic, 30 million megabytes of mobile data and 65 million text messages sent and received.

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