Cable / Telecom News

Bell Let’s Talk day earns over $6.8 million


MONTREAL – Bell Canada’s Let’s Talk Day appears to have been another unqualified success.Just after midnight, the Bell Let’s Talk web site said it had counted 136,560,989 interactions across all of the platforms in which it was tracking mentions, texts, calls, hashtags, video views and so on. At 5 cents each, that’s over $6.8 million raised to help fund mental health programs across Canada (although there may be some counting of mentions still happening after Cartt.ca went to bed for the night…)Canadians (or anyone really) could talk, text and join in on social media, watch a video or tweet with...