BCE Inc. reports developments for a Canadian communications company operating fibre and wireless networks, enterprise services and digital media. Company news commonly covers quarterly results, shareholder-meeting materials, director elections, executive compensation votes and participation in telecom and media investor conferences.
Other recurring updates address BCE and Bell Canada capital-market activity, including preferred share conversions, dividend-rate resets and Bell Canada medium term note program disclosures backed by BCE guarantees. Company announcements also describe network, cloud and AI-driven service initiatives tied to Bell’s communications infrastructure.
BCE (BCE) announced preferred-share conversion results that will shift its outstanding share mix toward fixed-rate Series T on November 2, 2026.
Holders tendered 400 Series T shares for conversion into floating-rate Series S shares and 676,765 Series S shares for conversion into Series T shares, each on a one-for-one basis. After conversion, BCE will have 5,474,698 Series T and 1,190,512 Series S shares outstanding.
For the five-year period beginning November 2, 2026, Series T will pay quarterly cash dividends at an annual fixed rate of 5.523%, while Series S will continue paying monthly floating adjustable cash dividends. Both are payable as and when declared by BCE's board. Both series will remain listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under BCE.PR.T and BCE.PR.S, respectively.
BCE (BCE) will announce its third-quarter 2026 results and hold a financial community conference call on November 5, 2026. The call starts at 10:00 am eastern, with President and Chief Executive Officer Mirko Bibic and Chief Financial Officer Curtis Millen participating. Media may listen only, and a live audio webcast will be available on BCE's website.
Bell (BCE) and Cisco are collaborating on Canadian AI infrastructure under a memorandum of understanding.
The companies will explore combining Bell’s Canadian data centre capacity, connectivity and operations with Cisco’s AI infrastructure and security technologies. They will assess modular deployments for AI training and inference, along with commercial models that align customer costs with infrastructure use or reservations. The work is intended to give Canadian organizations more control over where critical systems and data are located and managed.
BCE (BCE)/b) executives will participate in fireside chats at three investor conferences in September 2026.CEO Mirko Bibic will speak at the Bank of America Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in New York at 1:10 p.m. EST on September 10, 2026. CFO Curtis Millen will appear at the BMO Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Conference in Toronto at 10 a.m. EST on September 15, 2026, and at the CIBC Eastern Institutional Investor Conference in Montréal on September 24, 2026. Details and live webcasts will be available on BCE's website.
BCE (TSX/NYSE:BCE) reported Q2 2026 operating revenues of $6,176 million, up 1.5% year over year, as 4.3% higher service revenue offset a 16.3% decline in product revenue. Net earnings were $629 million, down 2.3%, with EPS of $0.60, down 4.8%.
Adjusted net earnings rose 2.0% to $604 million, driving a 3.2% increase in adjusted EPS to $0.65. Adjusted EBITDA grew 1.0% to $2,702 million, with a stable 43.8% margin. Cash flows from operating activities increased 11.0% to $2,162 million, while free cash flow declined 9.5% to $1,042 million, mainly due to a 41.5% rise in capital expenditures to $1,080 million, including investments in Bell AI Fabric data centres and Ziply Fiber’s FTTP build-out.
BCE highlighted growth from its new Bell CTS U.S. segment and Bell Media, alongside ongoing pressure in Bell CTS Canada from regulatory decisions, lower device sales and legacy service declines.
BCE (TSX: BCE) (NYSE: BCE) announced that Rebecca McKillican has been appointed to the Boards of BCE and Bell Canada. McKillican was CEO of McKesson Canada from 2020 to 2023, having joined McKesson via its acquisition of Well.ca, where she was CEO.
She also serves on the board of National Bank of Canada, chairing its Technology Committee and sitting on the Human Resources Committee. Katherine Lee, a director since 2015 and member of the Audit and Corporate Governance Committees, is retiring from the BCE Board after 11 years, in line with BCE’s typical maximum 12-year director term.
BCE (TSX: BCE, NYSE: BCE) will convert all of its floating-rate Cumulative Redeemable First Preferred Shares, Series AJ, into fixed-rate Cumulative Redeemable First Preferred Shares, Series AI, on a one-for-one basis effective August 4, 2026.
Holders tendered 1,875 of 8,584,140 Series AI shares for conversion into Series AJ and 1,976,448 of 3,514,957 Series AJ shares for conversion into Series AI. As this would leave fewer than 2,000,000 Series AJ shares outstanding, all remaining Series AJ shares will be automatically converted to Series AI. The Series AI shares will pay a quarterly dividend for five years from August 4, 2026, based on an annual fixed dividend rate of 5.10% and will continue trading on the TSX under symbol BCE.PR.I.
BCE (TSX:BCE, NYSE:BCE) will hold its second-quarter 2026 results conference call with the financial community on Thursday, August 6, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. ET. President and CEO Mirko Bibic and CFO Curtis Millen will participate, with media invited on a listen-only basis. Investors can join via toll-free or local dial-in using Conference ID 63768#, access a replay until September 6, 2026 with passcode 63768#, or listen through a live audio webcast on BCE’s website.
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