said by LazMan: Circuit City ran it pretty much into the ground; and Bell took it over for pennies on the dollar, mostly to:
a) take away a big part of Rogers distribution chain (at the time, InterTan was in bed with Rogers)
and
b) increase Bell's retail presence almost instantaneously...
in quebec they were also probably the second biggest videotron distributor outside of videotron stores, videotron recently lost Brault and Martineau as well as a distributor