Bell Canada Enterprises - Largest leveraged buy out in market history

Bell Canada's directors agreed to
a whopping $48.5 billion acquisition to take the company private. The unbelievable part is that the investors are led by the Ontario
Teachers Pension Plan.

BCE is one of, if not the, largest digital TV providers in the nation. They claim to have around 1.82 million subscribers as of 2006.

BCE initially launched video service via satellite 10 years ago following up in 2004 with high speed
DSL services. They also were the first to test the Microsoft IPTV platform