MONTREAL – Bell said Friday that it now serves 1 million IPTV customers, making Fibe TV and FibreOp TV among the fastest growing product lines in the company’s 135-year history.
With the growth of Fibe TV in Ontario and Québec, and FibreOp TV in Atlantic Canada, Bell said that its IPTV coverage footprint now reaches 6.1 million homes, up from 5.1 million at the start of 2014. Fibe is also making “significant inroads” with small and medium business such as medical and dental offices, restaurants, and repair shops.
With service established in major cities across six provinces, Bell pledged to extend its IPTV service to mid-sized and smaller communities including Peterborough, ON; Shawinigan, QC; Bouctouche, NB; Liverpool, NS and Bay Roberts, NL this year.
"Bell TV is seeing phenomenal growth as more and more households make the move from cable to the best TV service available anywhere. Clearly, more Canadians are switching to Bell Fibe than are cutting the TV cord," said Rizwan Jamal, president of Bell Residential Services, in the announcement. "With innovative features like Whole Home PVR, Wireless TV, CraveTV and the unique new Restart function, Bell has reinvented television – and the numbers show that consumers have welcomed Bell's better TV experience."
