Aliant is the name of the
gestalt company formed by the
merger of the
four Atlantic Canada telephone companies:
NBTel/
Bruncor (
New Brunswick),
MTT (
Maritime Telephone and
Telegraph,
Nova Scotia),
IslandTel (
Prince Edward Island) and
NewTel (
Newfoundland and
Labrador). Each of the four companies operates more or less
independently in its home
province.
In addition to telephone service Aliant provides
internet service through
brand names such as
Sympatico,
Vibe, and
Extreme Speed;
cellular and
paging service under the
mobility brand and a digital cable service called
Vibe Vision.
Aliant also
owns
iMagicTV a company that make
equipment and
software to
deliver digital cable over
ADSL lines and
Prexar a
New England Internet Service Provider. Aliant's largest
shareholder is
BCE (
Bell Canada). Because of this the Aliant companies now get thier
bandwidth from
crummy Bell Nexxia instead of
MCI or
Country & Western, I mean
Cable & Wireless.