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		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			BCE INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000718940
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS (NO RADIO TELEPHONE) [4813]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-08481
		FILM NUMBER:		121151684

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		STREET 1:		1 CARREFOUR ALEXANDER-GRAHAM-BELL
		CITY:			VERDUN
		STATE:			A8
		ZIP:			H3E 3B3
		BUSINESS PHONE:		514-786-3891

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		STREET 1:		1 CARREFOUR ALEXANDER-GRAHAM-BELL
		CITY:			VERDUN
		STATE:			A8
		ZIP:			H3E 3B3

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		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	BELL CANADA ENTERPRISES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19880111
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UNITED STATES<BR>
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REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER<BR>PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16<BR>UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><FONT style="font-size: 10pt">&#091;BELL LOGO&#093;
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">For immediate release


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><FONT style="font-size: 11pt"><B>Bell shocked by CRTC rejection of Astral transaction, requests Cabinet intervention</B>
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    <TD><FONT style="font-size: 10pt">Bell will ask federal Cabinet to issue direction to CRTC to follow its own regulatory
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    <TD>Decision a breach of the CRTC&#146;s Diversity of Voices policy, and protects cable
conglomerates and rewards their extraordinary and obstructive lobbying efforts</TD>
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    <TD>CRTC decision denies Canadians hundreds of millions in new content funding, innovative new
broadcast services, enhanced programming choice and competition</TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">MONTR&#233;AL, October&nbsp;18, 2012 &#150; BCE Inc. (Bell) today announced it will request that the federal
Cabinet intervene in the CRTC&#146;s decision to reject Bell&#146;s acquisition of Astral Media. Bell is
appalled that the CRTC would come to a decision that so negatively impacts Canadian consumers and
the national broadcast industry, contravenes its own policy and is tainted by behind-the-scenes
lobbying by Bell&#146;s cable rivals.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&#147;This is a decision that should not stand. Canadian consumers were told today by the CRTC that they
don&#146;t deserve more &#150; more choice, more competition, more Canadian content funding &#150; all of which
Bell and Astral committed to with this transaction,&#148; said George Cope, President and CEO of Bell
Canada and BCE Inc. &#147;We met all the CRTC&#146;s rules, indeed our acquisition of Astral was based
directly on the CRTC&#146;s currently in-place Diversity of Voices policy. The wide-ranging benefits to
Canadians of the transaction are clear, but the CRTC has told consumers that they and the rules in
place just don&#146;t matter.&#148;


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">In its 2008 Diversity of Voices regulatory policy, the CRTC specifically stated that it would
approve broadcasting transactions resulting in a company controlling less than 35% of total TV
audience share. Bell and Astral combined would have an English-language TV market share of 33.5%
and just 24.4% of the French-language TV market, both well within the rules (it is worth noting
that this would put Bell-Astral on par with cable company Shaw/Corus, which has a 30.2% share of
English-language TV, and well behind cable company Qu&#233;becor&#146;s existing 30% share of French-language
TV).


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">With this CRTC policy in place, and which Bell logically used as its guide in acquiring Astral, the
CRTC instead quotes a working paper from 1978, a single application from 1986 and a 1989 public
notice to justify its rejection of the Bell-Astral transaction in 2012.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&#147;The CRTC&#146;s decision reflects a bygone era, based on antiquated working papers from the 1970s and
1980s that have little bearing on modern Canadian broadcasting, and completely ignores its own most
recent policy. Canadian broadcasting needs significant new investment, fresh ideas and increased
choice in a time of cable company dominance in media and accelerating competition from foreign
giants who invest little to nothing in the Canadian broadcasting system,&#148; said Mirko Bibic, Bell&#146;s
Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer. &#147;Considering the dire impact the CRTC&#146;s decision will have on
consumers in communities small and large, the blow it delivers to confidence in Canada&#146;s regulatory
system, and the fact that the CRTC worked so closely with cable companies to arrive at its
conclusions, Bell is compelled to launch its request to the federal Cabinet to direct the CRTC to
actually follow its own in-place policy.&#148;


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Bell has confirmed that senior CRTC officials met privately with Bell&#146;s cable competitors multiple
times in the days and weeks before the commission began its public hearings into the Bell-Astral
transaction, while denying Bell the opportunity for any such consultations &#150; calling into question
the impartiality of the entire process.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&#147;That the CRTC was not guided by its own rules is a grave concern. In fact, this is just the latest
in a series of decisions where the commission held hearings, established rules... and then
inexplicably
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">ignored them when Bell moved forward with a strategic investment. This sends a strong message that
Canadian broadcasting regulation is impetuous and unreliable,&#148; said Kevin Crull, President of Bell
Media.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Bell&#146;s acquisition of Astral was supported by independent producers, advertisers, media companies,
community and arts groups &#150; and by 99.84% of Astral shareholders. In rejecting the transaction, the
CRTC sent a clear message to the broadcasting industry, investors, and the corporate sector that
its own rules don&#146;t matter &#150; to the detriment of consumers across Canada.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&#147;A combined Bell-Astral would grow the entire Canadian broadcasting industry to the benefit of
consumers and content creators. Instead, the CRTC has decided to favour the interests of
unregulated U.S. broadcast channels and Internet television providers, while blatantly protecting
the interests of cable companies, such as Qu&#233;becor, which continues to dominate the French-language
media market,&#148; said Mr.&nbsp;Crull.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">If the CRTC&#146;s decision is allowed to stand, the Astral-Bell transaction will not be allowed to
close and the negative outcomes are clear:


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    <TD>It cuts off more than $240&nbsp;million in new funding for Canadian content, including greatly
expanded Canadian news and entertainment programming in both official languages.</TD>
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    <TD>French-language consumers have been robbed of a planned national French-language news
service based in Qu&#233;bec; Qu&#233;bec consumers, content creators and its broadcasting industry
remain at the mercy of Qu&#233;becor, the integrated cable-broadcaster that has long dominated
Qu&#233;bec media with a French-language TV market share of 30%, far higher than the combined
Bell-Astral share of 24.4%.</TD>
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    <TD>Consumers across the country are denied a stronger homegrown voice able to compete with
unregulated U.S. TV channels and Internet OTT broadcasters &#150; including with Bell&#146;s planned
all-Canadian service featuring Astral&#146;s Canadian and international movies and Bell Media news,
sports and entertainment programming to compete with cross-border services like Netflix and
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    <TD>It forces a review of Bell&#146;s commitment to continue to operate money-losing TV stations in
small communities across Canada as part of the Bell-Astral investment plan.</TD>
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    <TD>Canadians in the North are denied significant new broadband communications infrastructure
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Rather than welcome these clear benefits to consumers of the Bell-Astral plan to invest heavily in
Canadian programming and broadcasting services, the CRTC chose instead to serve cable companies
focused on protecting their profit margins, already the highest in North America. These same
corporations dedicated their vast TV, print and other media holdings to an aggressive and blatantly
misleading campaign aimed at subverting due process and quashing enhanced competition. In
combination with private meetings with the cablecos, the CRTC fell head over heels for their
carefully orchestrated and well-funded propaganda effort that made a mockery of the entire process.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">If the CRTC&#146;s decision stands, one of the closing conditions for Bell&#146;s $3.38&nbsp;billion acquisition
of Astral Media will not be met and the transaction will not proceed. The transaction also remains
subject to approval by the federal Competition Bureau.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>About Bell</B>
<BR>
Headquartered in Montr&#233;al since its founding in 1880, Bell is Canada&#146;s largest communications
company, providing consumers and business with solutions to all their communications needs. Bell
Media is Canada&#146;s premier multimedia company with leading assets in television, radio and digital
media. Bell is
<BR>
&#091;BELL LOGO&#093;


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">wholly owned by Montr&#233;al&#146;s BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE). For Bell product and service information,
please visit <U>Bell.ca</U>. For Bell Media, please visit <U>BellMedia.ca</U>. For BCE corporate
information, please visit <U>BCE.ca</U>.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">The Bell Mental Health Initiative is a multi-year charitable program that promotes mental health
across Canada via the Bell Let&#146;s Talk anti-stigma campaign and support for community care, research
and workplace best practices. To learn more, please visit <U>Bell.ca/LetsTalk</U>.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements</B>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Certain statements made in this news release, including, but not limited to, statements relating to
the
<BR>
proposed acquisition by BCE Inc. of Astral Media Inc. and other statements that are not historical
facts, are forward-looking. Forward-looking statements, by their very nature, are subject to
inherent risks, uncertainties and assumptions which give rise to the possibility that actual
results or events could differ materially from our expectations expressed in or implied by such
forward-looking statements. As a result, we cannot guarantee that any forward-looking statement
will materialize and you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">The forward-looking statements contained in this news release describe our expectations at the date
of this news release and, accordingly, are subject to change after such date. Except as may be
required by Canadian securities laws, we do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statements contained in this news release, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise. Forward-looking statements are provided herein for the purpose of
giving information about the proposed transaction referred to above. Readers are cautioned that
such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. For additional information with respect
to certain of these and other assumptions and risks, please refer to BCE Inc.&#146;s 2012 First Quarter
MD&A dated May&nbsp;2, 2012, filed by BCE Inc. with the Canadian securities commissions (available at
www.sedar.com) and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov).
This document is also available on BCE Inc.&#146;s website at www.bce.ca.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">For more information, please contact:


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Marie-&#200;ve Franc&#156;ur
<BR>
Bell Media Relations
<BR>
(514)&nbsp;391-5263
<BR>
<U>marie-eve.francoeur@bell.ca</U>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Thane Fotopoulos
<BR>
BCE Investor Relations
<BR>
(514)&nbsp;870-4619
<BR>
<U>thane.fotopoulos@bell.ca</U>



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