About: Bell Aliant

Bell Aliant Regional Communications is a communications company providing services primarily in rural areas throughout eastern Canada, as Bell Aliant in Atlantic Canada and as Bell in central Canada. It is publicly traded through the Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund, an income trust. Bell Canada presently owns about 45% of the group and exercises management control. Fund units representing about 28.5% of Bell Aliant were distributed to shareholders of Bell's parent company, BCE.