Mirror licenses.Canbra Telefonica, a consortium including Bell Canada Bell Canada Enterprises (TSX: BCE, NYSE: BCE), legally BCE Inc., is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Through its subsidiaries including Bell Canada, Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for International, Qualcomm and WLL See wireless local loop and PHS-WLL. International, won a "mirror" license to provide fixed telephone services in the northeast region of Brazil. Canbra and Tele Norte Leste, formerly a Telebras regional operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. , will be the two exclusive providers of fixed telephony services in the region. Canbra will invest US$1 billion to build a network. The mirror licenses were offered to create competition following the Telebras privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned in July 1998. |
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