The just-finished 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games was no doubt the most tech-savvy ever. And Bell, which served as the exclusive telecommunications partner of the event, has the statistics to back this up.

According to the communications company, one-trillion packets of data traveled over Bell's network in Vancouver during the two-week duration of the Games, thanks to the company's newly set up HSPA network. Customers used a total of 90 million minutes of mobile voice traffic, and 30 million megabytes of mobile data. In all, 65 million text messages were sent and received.

The massive back-and-forth communicating wasn't isolated to just wireless, though. Bell says that 750,000 phone calls were made, 6,000 of which hailed from landline VoIP phones. The Internet was also a flurry of activity, with 4.9 billion bytes of data delivered on behalf of the Games.

Bell is the first company to deliver both wireless and wireline connectivity to an Olympic Games. In all, Bell installed 1.2 million metres of Cat5 cabling to support 31,000 Ethernet ports.

The company delivered more than 24,000 hours of broadcast coverage; the most in Olympic history.

"The Bell team rose to the extraordinary challenge of connecting the 2010 Winter Games and bringing these 17 glorious Canadian days to the billions of people watching around the world too," says George Cope, President and CEO of Bell Canada. "The leadership role Bell played in delivering Canada's Games drove communications innovation in this country to new heights. By exceeding the immensely high communications standards of an Olympic event, we've provided an incredible legacy of increased broadband connectivity for British Columbia."

"Not only did Bell have the telecommunications network Games-ready faster than in any host country before us," says Justin Webb, Vice President of Olympic Services for Bell, "we were the first to build an entire Olympic Games network from scratch using state-of-the-art Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology, based around a 10 gigabyte backbone and almost 300 kilometres of fibre optic cable connecting Vancouver and Whistler and 130 Olympic venues and support sites across the region."

A total of 300 million people visited the www.vancouver2010.com Website, representing 1.1 billion page views. 250,000 people visited Vancouver for the Olympics, including 6,500 athletes and officials, 50,000 staff and volunteers, and more than 10,000 members of the media.

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