Bell Mobility in the News—Week ending Feb 19, 2010

1. Bell offers Free Virtual Olympic Cowbell - Bell Mobility customers can download a free Virtual Cowbell mobile application to use in cheering on Canadian athletes competing at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. With Bell’s Virtual Cowbell application, Bell Mobility customers can ring their cowbell on specific mobile phones and smartphones. Access the Virtual Cowbell at bell.ca/cowbell (bell.ca/cloche in French); additional data usage charges may apply.

(From Bell Canada – bce.ca – at http://www.bce.ca/en/news/releases/bm/2010/02/09/75380.html — press release dated 2/9/10)

1. Bell introduces New enhanced 911 service - 911 call centers across now receive more precise information on the location of callers using mobile phones. The reason is that Bell Mobility and other Canadian wireless companies have worked over the last year with more than 120 emergency call centres on E911 Phase Two, which uses GPS and triangulation of surrounding cell sites or towers to estimate a wireless handset’s longitude and latitude coordinates.

(From Bell Canada - bce.ca - at http://www.bce.ca/en/news/releases/bm/2010/02/01/75342.html - press release dated 2/1/10)

1. Upgrade from your old Bell plan and lose the SAF - For customers signing up for service starting Dec. 1, 2009, Bell Mobility has removed the 75 cent monthly 911 fee and $6.95 system access fee. All customers on plans signed before Dec. 1 will continue to see the 911 and system access fees on their bills.

(From Andrew Livingstone, Northern News Services, published Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/feb17_10be.html)

1. New Final Fantasy game available to Bell Mobility users - Namco, the publisher of the Final Fantasy video role-playing game series, announced that the game will be available for Bell Mobility in Canada on March 15, 2010. The game originated in Japan in 1987 and has been available in North America since 1990.

(By Phil Goldstein from Fierce Mobile Content dated 2/19/10 at http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/final-fantasy-coming-mobile-next-month/2010-02-19)

1. Contactless Enabled Handsets with Zoompass coming soon - Bell Mobility, in conjunction with two other leading mobile operators in Canada, intends to offer NFC or contactless enabled handsets to customers sometime in 2010. With these handsets, Bell Mobility customers will be able to use the Zoompass service to load funds into their bank or credit card account and then use the phone to make purchases, pay bills and send and receive money.

(From By Sarah Clark - NearFieldCommunicationsWorld.com - 17 February 2010, at http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2010/02/17/32839/canadian-mobile-operators-plan-to-introduce-nfc-or-contactless-handsets-within-the-year/)

And if you liked this article you can find another “Bell Mobility In the News” article next week at http://cellarama.com/articles/ - At Cellarama.com you’ll also find great contract-free Bell Mobility cell phones. Written by A. Thompson

Bell Mobility in the News—Week ending Feb 19, 2010

1. Bell offers Free Virtual Olympic Cowbell - Bell Mobility customers can download a free Virtual Cowbell mobile application to use in cheering on Canadian athletes competing at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. With Bell’s Virtual Cowbell application, Bell Mobility customers can ring their cowbell on specific mobile phones and smartphones. Access the Virtual Cowbell at bell.ca/cowbell (bell.ca/cloche in French); additional data usage charges may apply.

(From Bell Canada – bce.ca – at http://www.bce.ca/en/news/releases/bm/2010/02/09/75380.html — press release dated 2/9/10)

1. Bell introduces New enhanced 911 service - 911 call centers across now receive more precise information on the location of callers using mobile phones. The reason is that Bell Mobility and other Canadian wireless companies have worked over the last year with more than 120 emergency call centres on E911 Phase Two, which uses GPS and triangulation of surrounding cell sites or towers to estimate a wireless handset’s longitude and latitude coordinates.

(From Bell Canada - bce.ca - at http://www.bce.ca/en/news/releases/bm/2010/02/01/75342.html - press release dated 2/1/10)

1. Upgrade from your old Bell plan and lose the SAF - For customers signing up for service starting Dec. 1, 2009, Bell Mobility has removed the 75 cent monthly 911 fee and $6.95 system access fee. All customers on plans signed before Dec. 1 will continue to see the 911 and system access fees on their bills.

(From Andrew Livingstone, Northern News Services, published Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/feb17_10be.html)

1. New Final Fantasy game available to Bell Mobility users - Namco, the publisher of the Final Fantasy video role-playing game series, announced that the game will be available for Bell Mobility in Canada on March 15, 2010. The game originated in Japan in 1987 and has been available in North America since 1990.

(By Phil Goldstein from Fierce Mobile Content dated 2/19/10 at http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/final-fantasy-coming-mobile-next-month/2010-02-19)

1. Contactless Enabled Handsets with Zoompass coming soon - Bell Mobility, in conjunction with two other leading mobile operators in Canada, intends to offer NFC or contactless enabled handsets to customers sometime in 2010. With these handsets, Bell Mobility customers will be able to use the Zoompass service to load funds into their bank or credit card account and then use the phone to make purchases, pay bills and send and receive money.

(From By Sarah Clark - NearFieldCommunicationsWorld.com - 17 February 2010, at http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2010/02/17/32839/canadian-mobile-operators-plan-to-introduce-nfc-or-contactless-handsets-within-the-year/)

And if you liked this article you can find another “Bell Mobility In the News” article next week at http://cellarama.com/articles/ - At Cellarama.com you’ll also find great contract-free Bell Mobility cell phones. Written by A. Thompson

Related posts:

1. Zoompass for wireless payments, Give to Muscular Dystrophy, Digital TV to your Bell cell phone… Bell Mobility in the news!

Tags: bell e911, Bell enhanced 911, Bell Mobility in the news, Bell mobility zoompass, bell olympic cowbell, download final fantasy to your bell phone

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 at 3:26 pm and is filed under Bell & Cellarama In The News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.