BCTel

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BC Tel



Fate	Merged with Telus (formerly AGT)


Successor	Telus
Founded	1923
Defunct	1999
Location	British Columbia, Canada
Industry	Telecom

BCTel was the legal operating name for the holding company BC TELECOM Inc. created in 1993 to manage the assets of the British Columbia Telephone Company, which in turn was established in 1923. The federal charter for the British Columbia Telephone company was obtained in 1916.

In a 1999 "merger of equals" BCTel merged with Telus (the telephone operating company in Alberta), so as to avoid the regionally specific nature of the BCTel name the newly formed company used the Telus name. After the merger the new Telus became the second largest telephone company in Canada