British Columbia Telephone Company and later BC Tel was the legal name for the telephone company operating throughout the province of British Columbia , Canada. For most of its history, BC Tel was one of several regional monopolies in Canada. In 1985, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) restored competition in long-distance telephone service. In 1998, BC Tel merged with Telus to become the second largest telecommunications company in Canada.
9-602: In 1904, the Victoria & Esquimalt Telephone Company and the New Westminster & Burrard Inlet Telephone Company were taken over by The Vernon & Nelson Telephone Company. That year, the name of the company was changed to the British Columbia Telephone Company Limited. In 1916, the company obtained a federal charter and dropped the word Limited from its name. Theodore Gary & Company bought
18-655: A substantial interest in BC Telephone in December 1926 (held in Canada under the Anglo-Canadian Telephone Company). Other Gary companies at the time included International Automatic Telephone Company and British Insulated Cables. Mr G H Halse remained as president and general manager of BC Telephone. In July 1927, the company participated in Canada's first coast to coast radio broadcast for Canada's Diamond Jubilee. On
27-493: A year after the previous record. The rain and sleet began early in the morning of 21 January 1935. There were 1,500 poles and 700 miles of wire down in the Fraser Valley. Victoria had 1,800 telephones out of service. The Trans-Canada toll line was not restored until 10 February 1935. The first photographs ever to be transmitted from Vancouver via wire photo service took place during the royal visit of 29 May 1939. In April 1954,
36-409: The 1 April 1929, a charter was obtained for a new subsidiary called "North-West Telephone Company" (NWT). This company adopted radio-telephony for areas of the province unreachable by wire. The first experiment was providing a connection to Powell River from Campbell River , about 80 kilometres (50 mi) across the water. A new record for storm damage in the BC Telephone system was set little over
45-599: The 1990s, combined with the competition between line and cell transmission technology, totally changed the business environment. In a 1999 "merger of equals", BC Tel bought the smaller Telus , the telephone operating company in Alberta . The merger created the second largest telephone company in Canada after Bell . Initially registered as BCT.Telus, the merged company with headquarters in Burnaby, British Columbia, soon rebranded as Telus. Theodore Gary %26 Company From Misplaced Pages,
54-638: The federal government telephone system west of the Rockies was purchased and the operations split with the NWT. GTE of Stamford, Connecticut, became a 50.2% owner of BC Telephone when the Theodore Gary Company merged with GTE in 1955. In January 1961, the NWT was officially merged with its parent. In 1979, the BC Telephone Company acquired Automatic Electric Canada and formed "AEL Microtel". Soon afterward,
63-750: The 💕 Theodore Gary & Company was a 20th-century independent telephone firm in the United States. Among its subsidiaries was the Associated Telephone and Telegraph Company , which controlled telephone companies in Latin America and telephone manufacturing interests in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. In that capacity, Associated, formed in 1925, was the only other serious U.S. rival of International Telephone and Telegraph in Europe before World War II. Associated also exercised influence over
72-402: The name was shortened to "Microtel". In 1982, "BTE - Business Terminal Equipment" was formed to compete in the newly deregulated equipment field. BC Telephone formed "BC Cellular" in 1985 to compete in the new cellular telephone business. On 1 May 1993, BC Telephone reorganised under holding company "BC Telecom Inc" and changed its legal name to "BC Tel". The deregulation of the phone industry in
81-1275: The telephone networks in the Dominican Republic and Columbia. In 1930 it formed a new subsidiary, the General Telephone and Electric Corporation, with Transamerica Corporation and British investors, to strengthen overseas manufacturing and operations in competition with ITT . This was headed by Theodore Gary's son, Hunter Larrabee Gary. It would ultimately merge into the General Telephone Corp. (later known as GTE ) in 1955. References [ edit ] ^ Frank Allan Southard, American Industry in Europe (Houghton Mifflin, 1931; reprinted Routledge, 2000): 50-51. ^ Lloyd J. Hughlett, The Industrialization of Latin America, (McGraw-Hill, 1948): 117. ^ "Phone Group Joined by Transamerica," New York Times, 6 October 1930. ^ "Transamerica into Telephones," Time Magazine, 20 October 1930. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore_Gary_%26_Company&oldid=742878078 " Categories : Defunct telecommunications companies of
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