Bell Mobility in the News

1. Coming soon: Bell Mobility customers with one of 11 types of smartphones will be able to turn their phone into an intelligent remote control. Using Remote PVR—a remote scheduling and recording service customized for Bell TV—Bell Mobility customers can search for, discover and schedule TV programming across TV, Internet and mobile screens. Remote PVR will be available in French and English. (CNNMoney.com 2/12/10 at http://money.cnn.com)

2. Bell Mobility customers who follow the 2010 Winter Olympics will be able to watch up to 2,200 hours of live footage from the Vancouver games on their Bell phones. The mobile video feeds will be available only to Bell subscribers with video-equipped smartphones. The pictures will be sent to smartphones in a matter of microseconds, with near-crystal-clear quality. (CTV Olympics, The Globe and Mail, Grant Robertson 2/13/10 at http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=40038.html)

3. Bell Mobility is using the Comverse Mobile Internet HUB, visual voicemail and multimedia messaging for its wireless network in Canada. The Comverse Mobile Internet HUB helps optimize traffic flow and the new high-speed packet access network also brings Comverse Visual Voicemail to a range of handsets. (BNET 2/2/10 at http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/wireless-news/mi_hb5558/is_20100202/bell-mobility-selects-comverse-mobile/ai_n48854354/, copyright 2010 Close-Up Media, Inc.)

4. Ben Goloff and Josh Usheroff are in Vancouver as semi-finalists in Samsung’s Mobile Explorers competition, blogging about their personal experiences at the 2010 Winter Olympics. They’ll post their photos and videos using Samsung Omnia II phones; their film, Skywriter, will be downloadable on Bell Mobility phones. (Concordia University Journal 2/11/10 Anna Sarkissian at http://cjournal.concordia.ca/)

5. Owners of the Samsung Omnia II smartphone can get a mobile Olympics experience using Samsung’s Wireless Olympic Works (WOW) application with Bell Mobility’s high-speed mobile data network. Olympics-related news, event schedules and results, medal standings and even Vancouver weather reports will be available. (The Daily Observer, 2/12/10, Steve Tilley at http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2446966)

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