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NBTel

The New Brunswick Telephone Company, Limited was a telecommunications company that operated in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The company was founded in 1888 after Bell Telephone Company of Canada's attempt to establish telephone service in the Maritimes failed and purchased Bell Canada's New Brunswick assets in 1889. In 1973, NBTel purchased the last independent telephone operator in New Brunswick, giving it a monopoly for telephone service in the province.

Firsts
• NBTel was the first telephone company in Canada to be given Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approval to provide television services in 1998 and was the first to launch this into service in 1999. • NBTel was the first Canadian telephone company to provide internet service. • In 1993, NBTel became the first telephone company in North America to use a fully digital switching network. ==References==
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