{"id":1237,"date":"2006-10-11T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2017-01-25T21:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T02:21:35","slug":"say-goodbye-to-bce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Say goodbye to BCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As was anticipated by some, Bell Canada has followed TELUS in turning the entire company into an income trust, winding down BCE and simplifying its corporate structure.<\/p>\n<p>The BCE holding company was originally created as a way to work around CRTC rate regulation, moving unregulated operations out of the telco and into separate structures.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to increase the dividend payouts (almost doubling from $1.32 to $2.55) and thereby juice the stock price, <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/cnw\/061011\/a_bce_converts_trust.html?.v=1\">BCE is being unwound<\/a>, following <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1276\">TELUS&#8217; lead<\/a> from exactly a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>Two questions: what does all this mean for customers; and is there still a good reason to maintain the financial and operational complexities in <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1367\">Bell Aliant<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As was anticipated by some, Bell Canada has followed TELUS in turning the entire company into an income trust, winding down BCE and simplifying its corporate structure. 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Now, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1237\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Say goodbye to BCE<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Say goodbye to BCE &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As was anticipated by some, Bell Canada has followed TELUS in turning the entire company into an income trust, winding down BCE and simplifying its &#8226; October 11, 2006\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1237\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Say goodbye to BCE &#8226; 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