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BCE Inc., an abbreviation of its former name Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., is a publicly traded Canadian holding company for Bell Canada, which includes telecommunications providers and various mass media assets under its subsidiary Bell Media Inc. Founded through a corporate reorganization in 1983, when Bell Canada, Northern Telecom, and other related companies all became subsidiaries of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., it is one of Canada’s largest corporations. The company is headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the Verdun borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

BCE Inc. is a component of the S&P/TSX 60 and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the American-based New York Stock Exchange.

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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $306.96 (Toronto symbol CP; Shares o/s: 147.7 million; Market cap: $42.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.1%; www.cpr.ca) ships freight over its 22,000-kilometre rail network between Montreal and Vancouver, with links to hubs in the U.S....
MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. $80 (www.molsoncoors.com) is one of the world’s largest beer brewers. In the first quarter of 2019, overall sales fell 1.2%, to $2.30 billion from $2.33 billion a year earlier (all amounts except share price in U.S....
TELUS $49.19 (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 600.0 million; Market cap: $29.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.4%; www.telus.com) is Canada’s third-largest wireless carrier, after Rogers Communications (No....

In the past few years, Telus has invested huge sums in its wireless and Internet networks. Those improvements have helped it compete, not only with BCE and Rogers, but with Shaw Communications’ lower-priced Freedom Mobile service.


Less than 90% of Canadians use mobile services, so there’s still room to expand....
BCE INC. $59.56 (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares o/s: 898.2 million; Market cap: $53.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Divd. yield: 5.1%; www.bce.ca) is Canada’s largest traditional telephone service provider: it has 3.0 million residential customers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces....
BCE INC. $59 (Toronto symbol BCE; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 898.2 million; Market cap: $53.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.3; Dividend yield: 5.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bce.ca) continues to improve the speed and reliability of its wireless and high-speed Internet networks....
BCE INC. $58.42 (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares outstanding: 898.0 million; Market cap: $52.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 5.2%; www.bce.ca) and TELUS $47.93 (Toronto symbol T; Shares o/s: 598.7 million; Market cap: $28.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.6%; www.telus.com) have both used equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co....
Canada and the U.K. are considering joining other members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing group (U.S., Australia and New Zealand) in banning equipment from China’s Huawei for their planned ultrafast 5G wireless networks.


That could increase future costs for BCE, which has profited in the past few years on big investments in its wireless networks....
BCE INC. $58 (www.bce.ca) and TELUS CORP. $47 (www.telus.com) have both used equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in their wireless networks. Canada and the U.K. are now considering joining other members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing group (U.S., Australia and New Zealand) in banning Huawei equipment from their planned ultrafast 5G wireless networks....