BCE "steady", says the company's second quarter

MONTREAL – No big money increases. No huge financial hits seems to summarize the year so far for Bell Canada Enterprises. It's losing local phone customers (134,000) in the second quarter of 2006, ended June 30th, and adding others in video (19,000 adds in the quarter), wireless (90,000) and high speed Internet (47,000). However, overall growth was slower in the quarter in all segments. Bell now has 1.75 million video customers (mostly Bell ExpressVu), 5.6 million wireless customers and 2.3 million Internet customers. BCE's total revenues of $4.8 billion in the quarter increased 1% over the same period last year....