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	COMPANY DATA:	
		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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		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-08481
		FILM NUMBER:		13985156

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		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

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		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: 11pt">&#091;BELL LOGO&#093;
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">For immediate release


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt"><B>Bell Canada urges Ottawa to close loopholes that favour big US wireless carriers</B>


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    <TD>Bell is ready to compete with any wireless carrier on a level playing field</TD>
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    <TD>But 3 loopholes in federal regulations give special benefits designed for wireless startups
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    <TD>Advantages include special access to Canadian infrastructure and our national airwaves</TD>
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    <TD>All Canadians will be paying to help a giant American carrier &#150; 4x bigger than Canada&#146;s
wireless sector combined &#150; get benefits denied to Canadian companies</TD>
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    <TD>Ottawa gets nothing in return &#150; Canadian companies can&#146;t get the same subsidized access in
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">MONTR&#201;AL, July&nbsp;25, 2013 &#150; Bell Canada today called on the federal government to immediately close
loopholes in its wireless policy framework that favour major US wireless carriers at the expense of
Canadians and our country&#146;s world-class wireless industry and network infrastructure.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">&#147;Federal wireless policies intended to help small startup competitors unintentionally give the same
advantages to major US wireless companies that want to enter Canada &#150; advantages paid for by
Canadians and denied to the country&#146;s major wireless carriers. With the potential impact on the
country&#146;s airwaves and infrastructure, it&#146;s an unprecedented situation that affects all Canadians,&#148;
said George Cope, President and CEO of Bell Canada and BCE.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">&#147;Bell is ready to compete with any wireless company. Our national team takes pride in delivering
world-leading networks, the best mobile devices and competitive pricing to customers in cities,
small towns and rural locations throughout Canada. We can succeed against US giants in a fair
marketplace, because we&#146;ll invest more in Canada. But our federal government is unintentionally
underwriting the success of US companies in Canada. We ask that Ottawa allow Canadian wireless
companies a fair chance to compete by closing these loopholes.&#148;


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt"><B>3 loopholes in the rules</B>
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US giant Verizon Communications has already indicated it is poised to exploit the federal
regulations originally designed to assist competitive startups. These 3 loopholes in the rules
would allow Verizon to:


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    <TD><B>Buy twice as much new wireless spectrum in the upcoming auction of Canada&#146;s 700 MHz airwaves
as Canadian carriers at a lower overall price.</B></TD>
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<P align="left" style="margin-left:2%; font-size: 11pt">Canada is getting ready to auction 700 MHz spectrum &#150; the best airwaves for carrying your future
mobile calls and data. Able to operate equally well in both rural and urban areas, 700 MHz is
the most technologically advanced spectrum ever auctioned by the Canadian government. There are
4 prime blocks of this spectrum available. Canadian carriers like Bell can only buy 1 each &#150; but
big US carriers like Verizon can actually buy 2. The way the auction is structured, American
companies would pay less and get more spectrum, reducing the government&#146;s auction revenues at
the expense of Canadians. As well, one of Canada&#146;s own major wireless carriers could be shut out
of the auction for our country&#146;s airwaves entirely.


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    <TD><B>Get a free ride on the world-leading networks funded and built by Canadians.</B></TD>
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<P align="left" style="margin-left:2%; font-size: 11pt">Government rules give a company like Verizon the option to offer wireless service simply by
riding on the networks of Canadian carriers, world-class wireless infrastructure funded by
Canadian investors and built by Canadian workers over the last 30&nbsp;years. Verizon would not need
to build its own network throughout Canada, invest in rural communities or support job growth as
Canadian companies do. Verizon can easily afford to build its own networks and should do so if
it wants access to Canada&#146;s airwaves.


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    <TD><B>Acquire smaller Canadian wireless companies at fire-sale prices.</B></TD>
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<P align="left" style="margin-left:2%; font-size: 11pt">If wireless start-ups are financially distressed and looking for buyers, government rules
prohibit them from being sold to Canadian carriers large enough to buy them like Bell, Rogers or
TELUS. That depresses the value of the startups &#150; and lets a US company like Verizon acquire
them at cut-rate prices and gain all their assets, including their existing wireless spectrum
already subsidized by Canadians.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">Verizon Wireless is part of the $120-billion Verizon Communications conglomerate &#150; in comparison,
Bell Canada, the country&#146;s largest communications company, has annual revenue of approximately $18
billion. Verizon is not a company that needs special advantages or subsidies to compete.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">Even Verizon doesn&#146;t agree with these kinds of handouts &#150; at least in its home country of the
United States. Last March, Verizon told the US Federal Communications Commission &#147;there is no basis
for the Commission to give certain large companies a regulatory hand-out so they can acquire
spectrum... at a substantial discount over the price that would otherwise be received.&#148;


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">In May, Verizon also said &#147;The industry should be concerned about kind of picking winners and
losers in something like that &#091;US spectrum auction&#093;. We have been very vocal in a responsible way
with everyone in Washington about the importance of a level playing field.&#148;


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt"><B>No reciprocity: Canadians denied similar access in the US</B>
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It&#146;s important to note that Canadian carriers are not being given any kind of similar special
access to the US wireless market &#150; which means Ottawa would be giving US companies these advantages
and getting nothing for Canada in return.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">&#147;With the loopholes in the rules, Canadian companies cannot even try to acquire startup wireless
companies at any price, but American companies can. And they can bid for more of our country&#146;s
airwaves and at a lower price. Favouring US companies over Canadians threatens our national
communications industry and its place in Canada&#146;s future growth, productivity and prosperity,&#148; said
Mirko Bibic, Bell&#146;s Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer. &#147;These special rules were intended to help
new competitive start-ups. We ask how the federal government could now hand over Canadian spectrum,
infrastructure and capital to US corporations &#150; especially when Canadians do not have similar
rights south of the border.&#148;


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt"><B>Impact on Canadians</B>
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Industry experts predict that US operators like Verizon would use the lower capital and operational
costs enabled by the loopholes to target Canada&#146;s largest and most profitable urban markets. Not
only would they be free to ignore small town, rural and remote Canada, the network access loophole
discourages them from investing in infrastructure by guaranteeing them the right to use the
networks of Canadian companies.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">Analysts further predict that Canadian carriers would be required to concentrate their own efforts
in the very largest cities, while cutting costs and investment in order to compete. Canadian
telecom industry employment would be adversely affected, and entire regions of the country would be
left out of new waves of wireless innovation and access to the digital economy.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">Canada&#146;s wireless industry is now one of the most vibrant in the world. Our world-leading networks
serve 99% of the population, thanks to annual investments of almost $3&nbsp;billion by the Canadian
carriers (Canadian companies invest more per capita in telecommunications than any other country in
the G8). Pricing is competitive with developed countries, and according to an independent report
prepared for the CRTC, up to 40% lower than in the much larger US market. Smartphone penetration is
also higher in Canada than the US.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt"><B>A fair and straightforward solution</B>
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To ensure all Canadians can continue to benefit from a world-class wireless industry, Bell is
urging the government to support a fair and open marketplace by closing the loopholes:


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    <TD>If Ottawa is allowing US carriers access to Canadian airwaves, promote head-to-head
competition by permitting any carrier to bid on two blocks of prime spectrum in the upcoming
700 MHz auction &#150; not just US carriers.</TD>
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    <TD>Require US carriers that enter Canada to build out to the entire country, as Canadian
companies have done, rather than allowing them to simply enjoy access to the world-leading
networks built by Canadians.</TD>
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    <TD>Allow major Canadian carriers the opportunity to bid against the big US companies to
acquire wireless start-ups seeking buyers, with full review by the Competition Bureau.</TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">To learn more about this situation, please visit <U>Bell.ca/PlayFair</U>.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt"><B>About Bell</B>
<BR>
Headquartered in Montr&#233;al since its founding in 1880, BCE (TSX, NYSE: BCE) is Canada&#146;s largest
communications company, providing leading wireless, TV, Internet, home phone, and business
communications services from Bell Canada and Bell Aliant. Bell Media is Canada&#146;s premier multimedia
company with leading assets in television, radio and digital media. For more information, please
visit <U>Bell.ca</U>.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt">The Bell Let&#146;s Talk mental health initiative is a national charitable program that promotes
Canadian mental health across Canada with the Bell Let&#146;s Talk Day anti-stigma campaign and
significant funding for community care, research and workplace best practices. To learn more,
please visit <U>Bell.ca/LetsTalk</U>.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt"><B>Media inquiries:</B>
<BR>
Jean Charles Robillard
<BR>
Bell Communications
<BR>
(514)&nbsp;870-4739
<BR>
jean&#151;charles.robillard@bell.ca


<P align="left" style="font-size: 11pt"><B>Investor inquiries:</B>
<BR>
Thane Fotopoulos
<BR>
BCE Investor Relations
<BR>
(514)&nbsp;870-4619
<BR>
thane.fotopoulos@bell.ca



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